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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ve found the first line, the second is fifty yards farther on; you go back about thirty yards," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", and we lay on our oars and held our breath. It must have been a sentry or a watchman, and he sang out again, and I felt as if I was throbbing all over. Then we heard him muttering to himself. The tide had taken us clear of the stakes, and the Commander whispered" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Starboard! I heard the Commander say;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and then knew that in another half-minute we should be scrambling ashore. I crept along to the bows with the Commander, to be ready to follow him. We had hardly got there when the bows ran into the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where the blooming buttercups his eyeglass was? and then there shot out from the dark wall a most tremendous flame, with an awful roar—they had fired one of the guns. It seemed as if it was almost in our faces, and I turned my head half round, and the flame lighted up the men’s ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get back to the battery, boys! the Commander shouted;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men had to fall" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very sorry, sir, the Sergeant-major said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some of the men chucked a gun over the wall, sir. I’ve taken their names, sir." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let ’em chuc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’ll light the place up and dry our clothes, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right O!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifth of November, almost, ain’t it, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And there go the fireworks, too," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Those are cartridges going off, the Commander shouted, running up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Clear ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’re getting ’busy’ over there, Captain Marshall said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That sounds as if our friends would be coming to call on us shortly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whatever is it, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bull frogs, down in the paddy fields below the six-inch gun," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are we?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Run, Ford, run! and I did, and jolly fast too; but he and the Commander and Wilkins, the bugler boy, only came along at a jog trot, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "behind me, and Captain Marshall was" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as if he had never ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t you worry; it was only Marshall’s joke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I take six men out there, sir, out to the right, creep round in the dark, and see if I can find them? Do let me, sir!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, if you c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "in the head with my boot, and they all ran off yelping. We went scrambling over rough ground, and stumbling over what seemed like heaps of broken crockery, and then we came to a ditch. I was so" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That’s the Gunnery Lootenant an’ ’is little lot, sir, one of the men whispered, and I recognized his voice. It was Martin, one of the sentries in the gunroom" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where are we?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crickey, sir, beggin’ your pardon, you does look a awful sight!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What’s the matter? What’s happened?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kicked you in the face, sir, and dragged you away afore we could stop ’em." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What! I said, very alarmed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Commander not here? Where am I?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don’t e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did we smash that gun?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We never got nowhere near it, sir. Jerusalem! he gasped," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, tell me. What happened? Did Mr. Rawlings get hurt?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, sir, it was like this. We went along all right till those huts began a burnin’, but the light from ’em just gave the show away, and let ’em see where to fire. Mr. Rawlings was knocked over, an’ a lot more, sir, an’ the last as I seed of ’em was going back, very slow, a-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’ve got a bit of a scratch ’ere, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did they catch you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it was like this, sir. I saw ’em a-picking of you up—that not being so difficult, beggin’ your pardon—and, not thinking, I slipped along arter you, forgettin’ that I’d only got one arm that ’ud work. Well, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What’s the matter with my arm? I asked him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it’s broken." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You’re an officer, aren’t you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come down with me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have some food ready for you; come and take some, it will do you good," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We’ve got Mr. Travers back—that lieutenant you caught —and, like the conceited ass I am, said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I found him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know, he said bitterly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never wanted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are they? How’s Sally?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish to heavens I’d never set eyes on either of them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why don’t you send them back to us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send ’em back? I daren’t; my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do tell me whether they all got away safely last night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They left one marine dead, no one else. He began to work himself into a passion again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My men almost got out of hand last night—I’d a h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m going down, I whispered to Miller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Help me off with my boots." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you all right, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That’s our old eight-inch, sir, Miller whispered, as one especially loud report shook the door." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expects the old man—beggin’ your pardon, sir, Captain Lester—is coming along to look for us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep out of the way, sir;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We’ll be scuppered, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Run for the house," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go and get a lamp, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Ford, Mr. Ford! Where are you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Show us how to bar the door," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quick, mon, quick! Bar it up—that way; there’s the lock—not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be varry careful, he whispered, and we groped our way down some irregular stone steps. We could hear them still banging away at the courtyard door. I kept on bruising my feet and toes in the cracks, and stumbling, but the old Scotchman always seemed to keep me from falling; and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It’s aboot twa hours afore high water, and we’ve the flood wi’ us, the Lord be praised! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep down oot o’ sight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you? Where are you taking us?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’ve set a light to the boss’s hoose, he whispered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God grant we be in time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get oot! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doan’t talk a word, and jest follow me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord be praised! they’re still shooting ’em," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go in there; Hobbs and his lassie are there. Get them here in two minutes; I’ll be back then. We must get them away. Quick, for God’s sake, boy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who’s that? Is it Captain Evans?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Midshipman Fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What d’you do for a faint, Miller? I asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You’ve been through ’first aid’." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where’s Hobbs? Where’s your father?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m Midshipman Ford of the _Vigilant_, sir, come to fetch you and Miss Hobbs. You must come immediately; these are two of my men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’m too weak to walk much, but reckon I’ll do it if it ain’t far. You’ve been a tarnation long while findi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too late! We’re done for!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’re setting fire to the huts, he cried;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guess Sally Hobbs ain’t a ten-cent doll, I heard her sob." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can put me down ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark! he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, I wish they’d come!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’re going to leave us; and Sally, who seemed almost" }, { "from": "human", "value": ", kept on moaning," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why doesn’t Captain Evans come?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’ve broken in! the Scotchman groaned, and Sally shrieked and buried her head in her lap. Miller seized a rifle and jumped across, pushed her out of the way, opened the shutter at the back, and leant out. I saw him load it, and he was just going to fire, when there were cries...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you very much, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hoffman brought us, showed us a path up from the water. He’s gone to try and keep order. Can she come away at once?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You hurt, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shot through the chest; get me into a corner. Is Sally safe?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Try and get hold of me; get hold of my coat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not that side; the other, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’m Ford of the _Vigilant_." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God you are safe! I’m dying. Bring Sally to me;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s not safe for her here; I’ll try and get you roun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get me some water and bring Sally, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I’m finished. God have mercy on me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it? she asked in a scared voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are we safe? Has Captain Evans come?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come down with me. Mr. Hoffman’s dying, and wants to see you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That old Scotchman could guide us back, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where’s Mr. Ching?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That ain’t no good, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’re all round us now, ’undreds and ’undreds...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get along back to the house, he gasped—his face was streaming with blood—" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can’t hold the walls any longer. I have not enough men;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Chinese Lootenant wants to know if you can take in Morse[#], sir. The _Vigilant_ is signalling. We fired a rocket an hour ago to let ’em know that the _Huan Min’s_ men were ’ere, an’ we’ve been tryin’ to take in their signal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can’...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How are we getting on?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pretty middlin’, sir. We’ve only had about three killed and two or three wounded, and we can keep the skunks out of it when we can see them, which we can’t always do on account of this ’ere blessed fog." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t stand up; kneel down, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are firing at us." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", and short ones only half-way for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get your knife and scratch ’longs’ and ’shorts’ on a tile as I sing them out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then the beam disappeared as a thicker bank of fog rolled across; but it was g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They ought to be here soon, Mr. Ching said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Mr. Hoffman know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He’s been dead this last hour, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You go and get some more sleep," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are doing all right, aren’t we, sir?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "So far; but this fog makes it difficult for us to see them, and I fear they may try and rush us. We have not much ammun...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to tell the news to Hobbs and his daughter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have a lot of blood on your face, sir, I told him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope you aren’t hurt much." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only a stone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We had a stiffish bit of business getting back to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why couldn’t we bring in rifles too, sir? I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There must be heaps of them lying out there; and then, without thinking what I was going to do, I sang out to Miller to give me a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come back, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me two bags," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell your people, sir, that we’ve gone, in case they think we’re pirates, please;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Most of them are in the path to the gate," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better take these back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right you are, sir! Let’s try;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that gateway still closed?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Been smashed over an hour, an’ they’ve been swarming all over ’ere, up to ’arf an ’our ago, sir, just where we are now, sir." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We’re too much to the right, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You go that way, sir, and I’ll go the other," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The left side of the gate door doesn’t seem to be damaged, sir, I told him;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’ll try and burn down the door at the back, there’s no window from which we can shoot them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep the rest of the men at the windows," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you kill them all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Most of them, I think. You’ve done us a good turn—very lucky that you saw them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What were you firing at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We gave ’em ’gip’, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, sir! Listen! The Cap’en’s a-comin’." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Them’s Mary and Jane, sir, right enough." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They’ve been firin’ for the last twenty minutes, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guess I’m right tired," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We’ve saved Sally Hobbs all right, Ford." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old Lest" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Lest’s Sorry—The Marine Lands Again—" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "B.-T." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B.-T." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that night we landed with my chaps to have a bit of a plugging match, whilst Whitmore went off with a No. 9 detonator and something in the gun-cotton" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "scrum, or something like that, charged the whole blooming pack of Chinese, got" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With a long, long pull, and a strong, strong pull, cheerly! lads! pull away" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That were your second best serge frock, sir, he said sadly, when he had recovered from his surprise at finding me alive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cost you four pun’, three-and-sixpence—with postage, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We ’aven’t paid for it, ’ave we, sir? We couldn’t send it back as a misfit or some’ow, I s’pose? I knew you’d being doing som’ut like that, sir, if I let you wear it, and your third best pair of trouses is all split over one knee another three-pun’-ten gone slosh, sir—that is, i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I’m all right, sir, thank you—right as a trivet—my head’s the only part of me which would have stood it. Very sorry we couldn’t do much for you last night. How’s the Commander?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Umph! Can’t say. Mayhew can’t say either. Pretty bad, I fea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Lest" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ever shoved it into a ’uman afore, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never; nothing bigger than a cockroach." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir, it ’ull be some’ut to ’ang up in the ’all at ’ome when we draws our pension. Won’t it, sir?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Corps" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I make it a rule in life, I had told him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and he had gone away muttering that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", but it was all I could do to keep them bunched up together, touching each other, and the section leaders bawling out, every minute or two, to give the others a notion where they were. My old sergeant-major nearly wept because he couldn’t know whether they were" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": ", and Whitmore had brought Rawlings as his. My marines—Langham with the machine gun section, old" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B.-T. with" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A company, and Trevelyan with" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B company—...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the Skipper growled to me, when we’d run up against each other in the fog." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They’ve gone into town to the theatre, and supper afterwards at the Savoy or the Carlton, I expect," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I jolly well wish I had," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That’s Ching, I thought;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ", but daren’t come near enough to be" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first bit of firm ground we come to I’m going to stop there, he growled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It’s no use going on like this. I haven’t the shadowiest idea where I’m going." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not the foggiest, I imagine you mea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blucher" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bagged him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rather! Got him with my second; he ran into a tree," }, { "from": "human", "value": "—an old villain who spent most of his time doing" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and 10A[#]—on the extreme left of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It means that they’re shelling that house. Umph! And that means that Ching has got inside it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shove on! They’ve been waiting for us too long already;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "ought to be, and were jolly pleased, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don’t give ’em any time; after ’em, Marshall, I heard the Skipper shouting, and we simply did a record sprint," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Blucher going on ahead of us, thinking that his show had come along at last, and barking loudly, like the useless, untrained,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There’s someone showing on top of that house, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where’s one of the signalmen? the Skipper roared." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There you are—are you—wave something; get on top of that hut and wave your flags." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A jolly good ’wheeze’ that, and Trevelyan winked at me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must put that in your blessed drill book, eh, soldier?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Blucher" } ]