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51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wot's yer game, old sport?"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove! ejaculated Setley delightedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's doing it. I was rather doubtful whether she would tackle that gradient. Now, you bounders, how's that?"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're through, ejaculated Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, replied Ralph."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had forgotten. Suppose it was in the excitement of the minute. Any casualties?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Private... |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whack her up for all she's worth, ordered Ralph, addressing the motor mechanic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, lads, it's a race. It's up to us to get to that viaduct before the train can cross."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pass the word that any man who wishes may get out, he said to Sergeant Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to ram that engine."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy, Kamerad!"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's to be done with this crush? enquired Ralph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't fire on the blighters, we can't take them prisoners."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if we let them go they'll soon tell their pals, sir, added Alderhame."
}... |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, declared Ralph, as the handful of Britons were left alone with the dead and dying victims of the deliberate collision."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A couple of men, with a charge of explosive and a two-minute fuse: we're going to settle the bridge."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Properly plugged, an' no chance of gettin' back to Blighty. 'Op it, sir, an' don't worry arter me."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you hit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Left leg, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No more bloomin' football for me, worse luck. It's like this, sir----"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put your hands round my neck and hang on, ordered Setley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to carry you in."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bringin' 'em in, sergeant? asked one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're all best outside, I'm thinking. They're bringing up the guns."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove, so they are! exclaimed Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you making for, sergeant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For that farmhouse, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better not, protested the wounded subaltern, as resolutely as his bodily weakness permitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"val... |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the German officer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'it 'im a little too 'ard, sir, he explained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meant ter put 'im to sleep in the best perfessional manner, but----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He w... |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they let it go at that we may even yet have a chance,"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No chance of slipping through, decided the sergeant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll lie close and trust to luck. They may not spot us. If they get too curious we'll give them something to remember."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're mighty keen on getting us, said Ralph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A couple of thousand men at the very least."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand by,"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for a good old shelling,"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're going to wait until its dark and then rush us, decided Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Jove, I never before played to such a crowded audience as this!"
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buck up, Setley! exclaimed Danvers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't keep us waiting. Here's plenty of room inside."
}
] |
51332 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless my soul, no! replied the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few months at home and you'll be as fit as a fiddle. Let me be the first to congratulate you, Mr. Setley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Larouche, do things go pretty well across the water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not badly, my lads, not so badly."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lake is solid yet, said Cleophas Pesant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you that we shall have a lean year, asserted one old fellow,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The work on the wharf will go forward at once ... I have been sent money by the Government, and those looking for a job should see me before vespers. If you want this money to stay in the parish instead of being sent back to Quebec you had better lose no time in speaking to me."... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two men are up here with money to buy furs. If you have any bear, mink, muskrat or fox you will find these men at the store until Wednesday, or you can apply to François Paradis of Mistassini who is with them. They have plenty of money and will pay cash for first-class pelts."
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty-five cents!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifty cents!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dollar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't play the fool, Jean. Your wife will never let you pay a dollar for such a pig as that."
},
{
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria Chapdelaine is back from her visit to St. Prime, and there is her father come to fetch her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it Samuel Chapdelaine who has a farm in the woods on the other side of the river, above Honfleur?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"v... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good day to you, Mr. Chapdelaine. Good day, Miss Maria. I am in great luck at meeting you, since your farm is so high up the river and I don't often come this way myself."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "François Paradis!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is indeed a bit of luck, for I haven't seen you this long while, François. And your father dead too. Have you held on to the farm?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You remember François Paradis of Mist... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "François Paradis! ... Why surely, father, I remember François Paradis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Mr. Chapdelaine, I have not kept the farm. When the good man died I sold everything, and since then I have been nearly all the time in the woods, trapping or bar... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should be safe enough for crossing this evening, said Nazaire Larouche,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody says that the ice will hold for a long time yet, replied his sister-in-law."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better sleep here again to-ni... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is nicer than our house, thought Maria to herself. Nazaire Larouche kept directing attention to his wants with dark sayings:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was your pig very lean? he demanded; or perhaps:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fond of ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mass is beautiful. I am often very sorry that we live so far from churches. Perhaps not being able to attend to our religion every Sunday hinders us from being just so fortunate as other people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not our fault, sighed Maria,"
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up there, Charles Eugene!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charles Eugene, ill-favoured beast that you are! Wretched, badly brought up creature! Get along, Charles Eugene!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charles Eugene, get on there!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, father, said Maria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a little water on the ice, said he,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, Charles Eugene! Go on there!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are the last to cross this year,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will be glad to see you again, Maria, said her father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have been lonesome for you, every one of them."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O look, said Alma Rose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has been lonely without you like the rest of us, came from Alma Rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every morning he used to look at your bed to see if you were not back. She called him to her."... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you a good girl while I was away, Alma Rose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alma Rose was not too naughty; but Telesphore has been a perfect torment to me. It is not so much that he does what is wrong; but the things he says! One might suppose that the boy had n... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the Demon of gluttony who tempted me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Demon of disobedience lured me into that. Beyond doubt it was he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he must not be allowed to come back, eh, mother! He must not be allowed ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A visitor, announced mother Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eutrope Gagnon has come over to see us."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greeting to each and all, was the salutation as he pulled off his woollen cap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fine night, and there is still a crust on the snow-, as the walking was good I thought that I would drop in this evening to find out if you were back."
}... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The weather is mild; if it misses turning wet it will be by very little. One can feel that the spring rains are not far off ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The beasts have been in the stable since the end of October and the barn is just about empty, said mother Ch... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How nice it would be to live in a country where there is hardly any winter, and where the earth makes provision for man and beast. Up here man himself, by dint of work, must care for his animals and his land. If we did not have Esdras and Da'Be earning good wages in the woods ho... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only you wait a few months ... When the boys are back from the woods we shall set to work, they two, Tit'Bé, and I, and presently we shall have our land cleared. With four good men ax in hand and not afraid of work things will go quickly, even in the hard timber. Two years from ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At their ease ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At their ease..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is raining! he exclaimed. His hosts made toward the door to see for themselves; the rain had in truth begun, a spring rain with great drops that fell heavily, under which the snow was already softening and melting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sou'east has t... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spring is not far ... Spring is not far ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ice is going out, she announced to those within."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can hear the falls."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "François will soon be passing. He said that perhaps he would come to see us. Maria replied with a scarce audible"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are camped at the end of the portage above the rapids. The tent had to be pitched and things put in order to make the Belgians comfortable for the night. When I set out I knew it was hardly the hour for a call and that the paths through the woods must be pretty bad. But I sta... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only Tit'Bé has changed, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When you left Mistassini he was but so high..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor have you altered in these seven years; not a bit; as for Maria ... surely you find a difference!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see that ... that I saw her the other day at Peribonka."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so you sold the farm when your father died?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I sold everything. I was never a very good hand at farming, you know. Working in the shanties, trapping, making a little money from time to time as a guide or in trade with the Indian... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up there the winters are harder yet than here, and still longer. We have only dogs to draw our sleds, fine strong dogs, but bad-tempered and often half wild, and we feed them but once a day, in the evening, on frozen fish.... Yes, there are settlements, but almost no farming; th... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Immaculate heart of Jesus, have pity on us..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great St. Joseph, pray for us..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Isidore, pray for us..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pleasant it is to have a caller, when we see hardly anyone but Eutrope Gagnon from year's end to year's end. But that is what ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the boys get back we are going to make land,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there is anything, said the mother,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The stumps are hard to get out. at length said the elder Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three weeks ... Yes, confound it! That is what I think too."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am done for ... Ah! I am done for. But he pulled himself together on seeing her, and roared out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cold water! Perdition! Give me cold water."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gently ... together now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perdition! I'll make you stir, so I will. His gasps were nearly as audible as the words. Taking breath for a second he rushed once more into the fray, arms straining, wrenching with his great back. And yet again... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the fine weather lasts, said mother Chapdelaine,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the feast of Ste. Anne, said their mother by way of consolation,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With five men, said Eutrope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't make very quick progress by yourself, that is true enough, but a man lives on very little when he is alone, and then your brother Egide will be coming back from the drive with two or three hundred ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A hard time! exclaimed Legare with scorn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The young fellows of to-day don't know the meaning of the words. After three months in the woods they are in a hurry to get home and buy yellow boots, stiff hats and cigarettes, and to go and se... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another visitor!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have come to pay you a visit!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My nephew Lorenzo, was Ephrem Surprenant's introduction,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a son of my brother Elzear who married a young Bourglouis of Kiskisink. You should be able to recall that, Madame Chapdelaine?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right. Precisely right. Well, this one here is Lorenzo. He has been in the States for many years, working in a factory."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He came here, continued his uncle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has no wish to hold on to the land and cultivate it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, the idea of settling down on the farm does not tempt me, not in theleast. I earn good wages wher... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was a girl, said mother Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there has been some talk with three Frenchmen who came to Mistook last month. I expect we shall make a bargain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And are there many Canadians w... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telesphore, directed the father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Telesphore covered the bottom of the leaky vessel with earth, filling it then with dry chips and twigs which he set ablaze. When the flame was leaping up brightly he returned with an armful of herbs and ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greetings to everyone!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Offer your chair, Da'Be!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! You are forever saying that we are buried in the woods and see no company, triumphed her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Count them over: eleven grown-up people!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And look, said Ephrem Surprenant,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had you a good trip, François?-He went up the river with strangers to buy furs from the Indians, explained Chapdelaine; who presented to the others with formality-"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "François Paradis, son of François Paradis from St. Michel de Mistassini.... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telesphore! called out Esdras,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria is not at her best this evening, said Madame Chapdelaine by way of excusing her,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will sleep here to-night, François?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course! said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to-morrow we will all gather blueberries. It is the feast of Ste. Anne."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a fine clump over here,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are very few this year, said François."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was the spring frosts that killed the blossoms. He brought to the berry-seeking his woodsman's knowledge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the hollows and among the alders t... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The others cannot be far away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going down to Grand'Mere next week, he said, almost in a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hesitating a moment he stammered out, eyes on the ground:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps ... they have said something against me?"
},
{
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wind is backing to the sou'east. Bad luck! Beyond question it will rain again,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the nor'west holds till to-morrow we shall begin,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark my words, we shall not have good hay-making weather. They say that down by the end of the lake some people of the same parish have gone to law with one another. Of a certainty the good God does not like that sort of thing!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may rain now if it likes, said Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be all the same to us."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can go to bed, Maria, I will look after the second baking."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you lonely without me, Maria?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was fond of them both, --thus she declared to Maria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I really think I liked Zotique best; but he went off to the drive on the St. Maurice, and he wasn't to be back till summer; then Romeo asked me and I said, 'Yes.' I like him ver... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bread must be ready!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had it only been an ordinary year!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the first snowfall there is yet a month before winter sets in. The old folks always so declared, and I believe it myself."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let the fire out, children."
}
] |
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