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4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pump is not frozen? he asks."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there plenty of wood in the house?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It must be a bad day in the woods!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In the woods they are better off than we are here, answers her father."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up there where the trees stand close together one does not feel the wind. You can be ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am wondering whether we shall have any callers on New Year's Day, said Madame Chapdelaine one evening. She went over the list of all relatives and friends able to make the venture."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Azalma Larouche does not live so far away, but she--s... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the roads are as bad as they were last year, said she,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it true, mother, she asked as evening was falling,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite true, her mother reverently answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One desiring a favour who says her thousand Aves properly before midnight on Christmas Eve, v... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail Mary, full of grace ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed art Thou amongst women..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed art Thou amongst women ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Lord is with Thee ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the roads as they are we will not be the only ones who have to stay at home this evening, said Madame Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But is there anything more lovely than the midnight mass at Saint Coeur de Marie, with Yvonne Boilly playing the har... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true enough, Laura, that you would have had a happier life with some other man than me, who lived on a comfortable farm, near the settlements."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Samuel; what the good God does is always right. I grumble ... Of course I grumble. ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been a good girl too, haven't I, father?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly ... Certainly. A black sin indeed if one were naughty on the day when the little Jesus was born."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you like me to rock you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And are we going to sing too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very well; now sing with me:"
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more? Very well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hail Mary, full of grace ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And now? Another song: which? Without waiting for a reply he struck in ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No? not that one ... Claire Fontaine? Ah! That's a beautiful one, that is! We shall all sing it together."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail Mary, full of grace ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't forget to put out the lamp?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, father."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thousand Aves have been said, murmured Maria to herself,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even if no one comes, said she,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eutrope Gagnon, at once declared Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was just saying to myself that it would be an odd thing if he did not come and spend the evening with us."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are the only visitor who has come our way to-day, said Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Naturally ... I would not let New Year's Day go by without paying you a visit. But, besides that, I have news to tell."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is what happened. You knew perhaps that he was foreman in a shanty above La Tuque, on the Vermilion River. About the middle of December he suddenly told the boss that he was going off to spend Christmas and New Year at Lake St. John-up here. The boss objected, naturally eno... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will remember the weather a week before Christmas-the heavy snow that fell, and after it the nor'west gale. It happened that François was then in the great burnt lands, where the fine snow drives and drifts so terribly. In such a place the best of men have little chance when... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went astray ... The storm caught him in the burnt country and he halted for a day. So much we know, for the Indians found a shelter of fir branches he had made for himself, and they saw his tracks. He set out again because his provisions were low and he was in haste to reach ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When they heard this, men from Ouatchouan set forth after the weather was a little better. But all his footsteps were covered, and they returned saying that they had found no trace; that was three days ago... He is lost ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It shows we are but little children in the hand of the good God. François was one of the best men of these parts in the woods, and at finding his way; people who came here used to take him as guide, and always did he bring them back without mishap. And now he himself is lost. We... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "François Paradis was almost alone in the world; now, as we all had an affection for him, we perhaps might have a mass or two said. What do you think, Laura?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes indeed. Three high masses with music, and when the boys return from the woo... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Maria."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet five Paters and five Aves for the souls of those who have suffered misfortune in the forest."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Christ Jesus, who didst stretch forth Thine arm to those in need, why didst Thou not disperse the snows with those pale hands of Thine? Holy Virgin, why didst Thou not sustain him by Thy power when, for the last time, his feet were stumbling? In all the legions of heaven why w... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hail Mary, full of grace..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blessed art Thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The roads are passable; if you wish it, Maria, we shall go to La Pipe on Sunday for the mass."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well, father;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "rather than"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "..."
},
{
"from... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall have dinner first. What say you, my good friends? You must have found an appetite on the road. As for myself, singing mass makes me hungry beyond anything you could believe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes! Yes!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So it appears that you are distressing yourself beyond what is reasonable and right?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be seated there,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If there was affection between you it is very proper that you should know regret. But you were not pledged to one another, because neither you nor he had spoken to your parents; therefore it is not befitting or right that you should sorrow thus, nor feel so deep a grief for a yo... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The duty of a girl like you--good-looking, healthy, active withal and a clever housewife--is in the first place to help her old parents, and in good time to marry and bring up a Christian family of her own. You have no call to the religious life? No. Then you must give up tortur... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So you have come here to till the land. How do you like Canada?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a beautiful country, new and so vast ... In the summer-time there are many flies, and the winters are trying; but I suppose that one gets used to these things in time... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before coming to these parts were you farmers in your own country?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What trade then did you follow?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was a tuner myself, a piano-tuner; my two s... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You were not able to make a decent living out of your trades over there. That is so, is it not? And therefore you came here?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "People are not always happy in the cities, said the father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everything is dear, and one is confined."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you picture it to yourselves as you have found it, Chapdelaine persisted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not exactly, replied the Frenchman in a low voice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not exactly ... And a shadow crossed his face which brough... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lorenzo sold his place for more than it was worth; they have but little money left and are in hard case; men like these are not built for living on the land."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is something of a struggle at the beginning-if you are not used to it; but ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not say such things as that; there is no happier life in the world than the life of a farmer who owns good land."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not in these parts, Madame Chapdelaine. You are too far north; the summer is too short; the grain is hardly up before th... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To-morrow is Sunday; I shall be over to see you in the afternoon."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria, he began,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The first day I saw you, Maria, the very first day ... that is only the truth! For a long time I had not been back in this country, and I was thinking what a miserable place it was to live in, that the men were a lot of simpletons who had never seen anything and the girls not ne... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This ... this is no place for you, Maria. The country is too rough, the work too hard; barely earning one's bread is killing toil. In a factory over there, clever and strong as you are, soon you would be in the way of making nearly as much as I do; but no need of that if you wer... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly know what to say ... You have always lived here and it is not possible for you to guess what life is elsewhere, nor would I be able to make you understand were I to talk forever. But I love you, Maria, I earn a good wage and I never touch a drop. If you will marry me as... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will not have me, Maria? You have no liking for me, or is it, perhaps, that you cannot make up your mind?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No need whatever that you should say 'Yes' at once. You have not known me very long ... But think of what I have said to you. ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know very well, Maria, how I feel toward you. I said nothing before as my farm was not so forward that we could live there comfortably, and moreover I guessed that you liked François Paradis better than me. But as François is no longer here, and this young fellow from the St... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true enough that I am not rich; but I have two lots of my own, paid for out and out, and you know the soil is good. I shall work on it all spring, take the stumps out of the large field below the ridge of rock, put up some fences, and by May there will be a fine big field ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know well enough that we shall have to work hard at first, Eutrope went on,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My affection for you ... of that I am not able to speak ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This young fellow from the States was ready with fine speeches, but you must not be carried away by them ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course you are quite free to choose, and I have not a word to say against him. But you would be happier here, Maria, amongst... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I cannot answer, Eutrope, either yes or no; not just now. I have given no promise. You must wait."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes to this one and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I knew it well--knew that somewhere on the earth was such a thing as this ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will marry Lorenzo Surprenant,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are pains through my body and I have no appetite, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must have strained myself to-day lifting a bag of flour when I was making bread. Now something catches me in the back, and I am not hungry."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to bed, she said presently."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good night's sleep, and to-morrow morning I shall be all right again; have no doubt of that. You will see to the baking, Maria."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will give the men their food, Maria, and your father will lend you a hand at milking the cows if you wish it. I am not good for anything this morning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be all right, mother; it will be all right. Take it quietly; we shall hav... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eutrope has a remedy,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is what I have, he announced rather dubiously."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are little pills. When my brother was bad with his kidneys three years ago he saw an advertisement in a paper ab... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is it certain that her trouble has only to do with the kidneys?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it was just that, from what Tit'Bé told me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She strained herself lifting a bag of flour, as she says; and now she has... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Eutrope has brought you a cure, Laura."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have no faith in your cures,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My brother took some of these three years ago when he had the kidney trouble so badly that he was hardly able to work at ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What ails you, mother? Are you not feeling any better?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah God, how I suffer! How I do suffer! I cannot stir myself, not the least bit, and even so the pain is as bad as ever. Give me some cold water, Maria; I have the most terrible thir... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyway it is far, and the roads will be heavy."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she no better?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My father should not be far from St. Coeur de Marie ... If the doctor is there they will rest the horse for a couple of hours and come back together. But the roads must be very bad; at this time, in the spring, they are sometimes hardly passable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With the roads in this condition, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, good mother, so we have taken the notion to be sick, just like people who have money to spend on such things!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She really is sick, I do believe... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Presently we shall know what is the matter, and the doctor will give her the right medicines."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it is just a wrench that she has given herself, at length he announced,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Internal lesions are serious things, and often one cannot detect them. The wisest man in the world could tell you no more than I. We shall have to wait ... But p... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Illnesses like these, said he,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall sleep at Honfleur, said he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose your horse is fit to take me so far? There is no need for you to come, I know the road. I shall stay with Ephrem, Surprenant, and come back in the morning."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyway the medicine he has given her is a good one; she groans no longer."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Samuel, I am dying, there can be no doubt of it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! No! You must not think that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know that I am dying. I feel it. The doctor is only an old fool, and he cannot tell what to do. He i... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I who was thinking to find her almost well. This doctor, now ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This doctor is not a bit of use, and I shall tell him so plainly, myself. He came here, he gave her a drop of some miserable stuff worth nothing at all in the bottom o... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was impossible for me to come sooner, the cure explained,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They sat at the bedside and talked in low tones. The doctor made a fresh examination, but it was the cure who told the result of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value"... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only if she should suffer greatly, so that she cries out, and never more than fifteen drops at a time. And do not let her have any cold water to drink."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctors do what they can, said he in a simple unaffected way,"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you sent for the cure? ... He has been here. And will he return? To-morrow; that is well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is nothing I can do for her. Something has gone wrong within, about which I know nothing; were there broken bones I could have healed t... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "She will die if that be God's pleasure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thou hast bestowed upon me the gift of healing bones that are broken, and I have healed them; but Thou hast denied me power over such ills as these; so must I let this poor woman die."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not think she will die before the cure comes back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I cannot tell ... If your horse is able you would do well to seek him with the daylight."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going to put the horse in."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is well; you had better harness; it is near day."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. I am going to put the horse in, Chapdelaine repeated. But at the moment of his departure it swept ov... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good house you have here; tightly made and warm. Your father and the boys built it, did they not? Moreover, you must have a good bit of land cleared by this time ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have come."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a heavy loss. You were fortunate in your wife, Samuel; no one may question that. Truly you were fortunate in your wife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The weather is quite mild this evening; we soon shall have rain. Everyone is saying that it is to be an early ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father! Do not sleep!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No! No! He sat up straight on his chair and squared his shoulders but since his eyes were closing in spite of him, he stood up hastily, saying:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us recite another c... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ephrem. Surprenant said no more than the truth. Your mother was a good woman, Maria; you will not find her like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Full of courage and good counsel, that she has been throughout her life; ... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, I caught up my ax and was off to the woods; and I laid into the birches so lustily that chips flew as thick as your wrist, all the time saying to myself that the wife I had was like no other, and that if the good God only kept me in health I would make her the best farm in... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I took one side and she the other, as the sheep used to scatter among the alders. It was growing dark, and suddenly I heard Laura cry out: 'Oh, the scoundrels!' Some animals were moving in the bushes, and it was plain to see they were not sheep, because in the woods toward eveni... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At Normandin, at Mistassini and the other places we have lived I always worked hard; no one can say nay to that. Many an acre of forest have I cleared and I have built houses and barns, always saying to myself that one day we should have a comfortable farm where your mother woul... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And then your mother would come quietly up behind me. She also would look out across our place, and I knew that she was pleased with it to the bottom of her heart because it was beginning to look like the old parish where she had grown up, and where she would so gladly have spen... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How little do we know people!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why stay here, to toil and suffer thus? Why? ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet they must be beautiful!"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Throughout all this land we are at home ... at home ..."
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And yet it is a harsh land, this land of ours ... Why should I linger here?"
}
] |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For this is it that we must abide in that Province where our fathers dwelt, living as they have lived, so to obey the unwritten command that once shaped itself in their hearts, that passed to ours, which we in turn must hand on to descendants innumerable:--In this land of Quebec... |
4383 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So I shall stay--shall. stay here after all!"
}
] |
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