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13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No followers allowed, was one of the strict laws of the Russell Square dynasty. Like many another law of that and of much higher dynasties it was only made to be broken; for stray sweet-hearts were continually climbing down area railings, or over garden walls, or hiding themselv... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And won't you come and fetch me, Tom? asked she, shyly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure Miss Hilary would not object, nor Miss Leaf neither."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Tom!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dressed in all their best, To walk abroad with Sally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sallys"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Janet Balquidder. Entering it, for there was no private door, she saw, in the far corner above the curtained desk, the pretty curls of her dear Miss Hilary. Elizabeth had long known that her mistress"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, Elizabeth, I should hardly have known you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "her one handsome shawl, which had been honored several times by Miss Hilary's wearing, her white straw bonnet and white ribbons, underneath which the smooth black hair and soft eyes showed... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, isn't he a mere boy; ever so much younger than you are?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three years."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is a pity--a great pity: women grow old so much faster than men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I kn... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Elizabeth, cried her mistress, cheerfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have said all my say, and now I have only to give my good wishes. If Tom Cliffe deserves you, I am sure you deserve him, and I should like to tell him so."
},
{
"from": "human",... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And when you have sixteen pounds a year, and somebody to do all your hard work for you, I dare say you'll think better of it, and not be so foolish as to go and get married."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master had been a-blowing up Missis, rather! And once, after the solemn dinner, with three footmen to wait on two people, was over, Elizabeth, passing through the hall, caught the said domestics laughing together, and saying it was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Afte... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Elizabeth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "the footman suspected, at the breakfast-table; and after breakfast, Master, without waiting for the usual attendance of that functionary, with his hat and gloves and a Hansom cab had flung himself out at the hall d... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fetch Elizabeth."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that? What are you doing to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing, ma'am. It's only me--Elizabeth."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Elizabeth, I'm so ill! take care of me."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The doctor, ma'am if he comes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll not see him. I don't want him. I know what it is. I--"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mind you don't tell. He doesn't know, and he shall not; it would please him so. It does not please me. Sometimes I almost think I shall hate it because it is his child."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know very much about such matters, said she, deprecatingly;"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think, to have a tiny little creature lying here beside you; something your very own, with its pretty face looking so innocent and sweet at you, and its pretty fingers touching you. Here Elizabeth's voice quite faltered over the picture she had drawn."
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you mind me talking to you this way, ma'am?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! Say what you like. I'm glad to have any body to speak to. Oh, I am a very miserable woman!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But circumstances bring about unforeseen conf... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Still, I may live to see it, you know: to have a pretty girl to take on my arm into a ball-room, or a big fellow to send to College: the Leafs always went to College in old times. He shall be Henry Leaf Ascott, that I am determined on; and if it's a girl, perhaps I may call her ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For we don't know what may happen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, nonsense!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, she said,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Tom, I wonder how he gets on without me! Well, it won't be for long."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pride's a safe robe, I'll wear it; but no rags."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lady of Peter Ascott, Esq., of a son and heir."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Henry Leaf Ascott, according to the mother's desire, which in her critical position nobody dared to thwart. Even at the end of fourteen days the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"valu... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the sulks, most like, though he didn't look it. He's a pleasant spoken young man and I'm sure I wish you luck with him,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless, said Mrs. Ascott, when this proposition was made, suddenly recurring to the fact which seemed hitherto to have quite slipped from her mind--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank you, ma'am,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Papa is a magical word, and let married people have fallen ever so wide asunder, the thought,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peter,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who is wanting you? Tom Cliffe? Isn't that the young man you are to be married to? Go down to him at once. And stay, Elizabeth, as it's such a bitter night, take him for half an hour into the housekeeper's room. Send her up stairs, and tell her I wished it, though I don't allow ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Elizabeth, what an age it is since I've had a sight of you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In his tone A something smote her, as if Duty tried To mock the voice of Love, how long since flown,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, what's the matter? Aren't... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tom, she said,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, then--since you will have it out of me--I think I do."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's this for?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You know. You'd better give it to Esther. It's Esther, not me, you must marry now."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going to blame you, Tom; but I think I'm as good as she. I'm not pretty, I know, nor lively, nor young, at least I'm old for my age; but I was worth something. You should not have served me so."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I do forgive you: I'm not a bit an... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not going to take this back, any how, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let me in, let me in!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Tom, Tom, I was so fond of you!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come here, Esther!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Esther, I've given up Tom; you may take him if he wants you. Make him a good wife, and I'll forgive you. If not--"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How continually, while one of those small private tragedies that I have spoken of is being enacted within, the actors are called upon to meet some other tragedy from without, so that external energy counteracts inward emotion, and holy sympathy with another's sufferings stifles ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bores through the castle wall"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't feel quite myself, Elizabeth."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is the matter? What are you doing, nurse? I won't be parted from my baby--I won't, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I going to be ill?--is baby--"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Missis, and the"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is her husband? Has she no relations--no mother or sisters? asked the fashionable physician, Sir ---- ----, touched by the slight or this poor lady dying alone, with only a nurse and a servant about her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If she has, they ought to ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll do it, my girl, said he, kindly;"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If she should die, die in the night, before Miss Hilary comes! thought the poor girl, and glanced once more around the shadowy room, where she was now left quite alone. For nurse, thinking with true worldly wisdom of the preservation of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"valu... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you are going very soon--to God. He will watch over baby, and give him back to you again some day quite safe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will He?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am afraid; I never thought of--this. Will nobody come and speak to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pray."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Father which art in heaven"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please--bring--my--baby. It had been f... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Selina"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "IN MEMORY OF SELINA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF PETER ASCOTT, ESQ., OF RUSSELL SQUARE, LONDON, AND DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HENRY LEAF, ESQ., OF THIS TOWN. DIED DECEMBER 24, 1839. AGED 41 YEARS."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mrs. Hand."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at Stowbury, and how different life was from what they then thought and looked forward to--Miss Hilary and her"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, answered the former with a sigh,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I always felt sure you would be married, M... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We never know through what divine mysteries of compensation the Great Father of the universe may be carrying out his sublime plan; and those three words,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God is love,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How beautiful! I wonder what a foreigner would think of this view? Or any one who had been long abroad? How inexpressibly sweet and home-like it would seem to him!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Leaf; I was sure it was you."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Leaf, will you take my arm?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I only landed last night at Southampton, Mr. Lyon explained to Miss Leaf, after the fashion people have, at such meetings, of falling upon the most practical and uninteresting details."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I came by the Overland Mail. It was a sudden journe... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you going home, Miss Leaf? They told me at your house you were expected to dinner. May I come with you? for I have only a few hours to stay. To-night I must go on to Liverpool."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But we shall hope soon to see you again?"
},
{
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is something worth coming home to,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am by no means disinterested in the matter of dinner, Miss Leaf; for I have no doubt of finding good English roast beef and plum pudding on your sister's birth day.--Happy returns of the day, Mi... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; you are thirty; I have known you for fifteen years."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a long time,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You think me very much changed?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a good deal changed,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not necessarily is that a bond. Many a tie formed in youth dwindles away and breaks off naturally in maturer years. Characters alter, circumstances divide. No one will dare to allege that there may not be loves and friendships formed in middle life as dear, as close, as firm as ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Things are rather different from what I thought; and he glanced with a troubled air round the neat but very humbly furnished parlor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And about the shop?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Johanna told you."
},
{
"from"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But after all it is hardly worth the telling, because, you see, we are very comfortable now. Poor Ascott, we suppose, must be in Australia. I earn enough to keep Johanna and myself, and Miss Balquidder is a good friend to us. We have repaid her, and owe nobody any thing. Still, ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I believe I have a right, the right that every man has when his whole happiness depends upon it, to ask you one question. You know every thing concerning me; you always have known; I meant that you should--I have taken the utmost care that you should. There is not a bit of ... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now that you know all, do you think in time--I'll not hurry you--but in time, do you think I could make you love me?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have loved you all my life,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in Robert Lyon's face at church, and made him, he afterward confessed, the very first time he gave Ascott a lesson in the parlor at Stowbury, say to himself,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I did marry, I think I should like such a wife as that brown-eyed bit lassi... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as he called her. He would sit for hours at the"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "this Machiavellian little woman actually persuaded her lover to have an important engagement in London! She could not bear him to be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know--hush: we'll talk another time,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, I want to talk to you about Johanna."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I guess what it is, said he, smiling;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; but it is not that. She would not live six months in a hot climate; the doctor tells me so."
},
{
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, let me sit down on the bench, and sit you beside me. It is too dark for people to notice us, and we shall not be very cold."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, my darling;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be vexed with me, Robert, dear; I hav... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "As you please, Hilary;"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "if you will, whom she would one day promise, and intended, literally"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That will do, love. Don't stay with me. I would not keep you from Robert on any account."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps he had better leave; and have to answer with equal formality,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not unless you are obliged;"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, what makes you so angry with me still?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not angry; I have no right to be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, you would have if I had really done wrong. Have I?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must ju... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look to her, Moor! have a good eye to see; She has deceived her father, and may thee."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robert, will you listen to me for two minutes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For as long as you like, only you must not expect me to agree with you. You can not suppose I shall say it is right for you to forsake me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I for... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It seems to me, Hilary, that this is hardly a matter of abstract right or wrong, or a good deal might be argued on my side of the subject. It is more a case of personal conscience. The two are not always identical, though they look so at first; but they both come to the same res... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "with which he identified himself with the natural pride of a man who has diligently worked his way up to fortune, was such that he could not, without sacrificing his future prospects, and likewise what he felt to be a point of honor, refuse to go back to Bombay until such time a... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, that was impossible."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you ashamed of my working? she asked, with something between a tear and a smile."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sometimes I used to be afraid you would think the less of me because circumstances made me an independent woman, earning my own bread. Do you?"
},
... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will exists still; so that in any case you are safe. No further poverty can ever befall my Hilary."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My child"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blind unbelief is sure to err. And scan His work in vain: God is His own interpreter. And He will make it plain."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must go to bed early,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my child."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, she thought to herself, as she looked on that frail, old face, which even the secondary, grief of this last week seemed to have made frailer and older."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, it is better as it is; I believe I did right. The end will show."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is the young people coming in to supper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's not, said Hilary, starting up--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does it all mean?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she glad to see me?"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by; God be with ye!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mammy Lizzie, also,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pa-pa,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Master Ascott"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--pointing to the blank bit of blue sky over the trees of Russell Square, and hoped in time to make him understand something about her, and how she had loved him, her"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know you will take care of this child--he is the hope of the family, said Miss Leaf, when she was giving her last kiss to little Henry."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not bear to leave him, if I were not leaving him with you."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mammy Lizzie, mammy Lizzie!"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Underneath is my address."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Poor Tom, poor Tom! sighed Elizabeth,"
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thy will be done;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lastly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He's very bad, ma'am, added the woman, civilly, probably led thereto by Elizabeth's respectable appearance, and the cab in which she had come--lest she should lose a minute's time."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't last long, and Lord knows who's to bury him."
}... |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Me, Tom. But don't speak. Sit down till your cough's over."
}
] |
13461 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm very bad, you see. This cough; oh, it shakes me dreadfully; especially of nights."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you any doctor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The druggist close by, or rather, the druggist's shopman. He's a very kind young fel... |
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