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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very glad you were all able to dine with me to-night. I telegraphed to Castleton as well, an officer of ours, he explained to Durrance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only reached London this morning from Dublin, he said with a shade of embarrassment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been some weeks in Dublin." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have come back engag...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Jack! said Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad of your good wishes. It was you who introduced me to Ethne; I cannot forget it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said in a level voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did you a good turn then." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will this make any difference?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean, shall I leave the service? he asked slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, he repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will need thought. There is much to be said. On the one side, of course, there's my father, my career, such as it is. On the other hand, there is her father, Dermod Eustace." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I drink to you, Feversham, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I too, old man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no answer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You return to Dublin, I suppose?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To Dublin? No; I go to Donegal in three weeks' time. There is to be a dance. It is hoped you will come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not sure that I can manage it. There is just a ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall see you to-morrow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As usual," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know Castleton's address?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Albemarle Street," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He leaves Euston at twelve o'clock. It is now ten minutes past eleven. Are you curious, Willoughby? I confess to curiosity. I am an inquisitive...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you luck might look my way. Well, she has. I go out to Egypt on General Graham's staff. There's talk we may run down the Red Sea to Suakin afterward." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is rough on you, he said sympathetically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That was expected. The day you dined with me I sent in my papers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That night? said Durrance, turning in his saddle." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I remember. You gave us your reasons that night. But for the life of me I can't help wishing that we had been going out together. When do you leave for Ireland?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-night." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So soon?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a long time since we bathed in Sandford Lasher," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Or froze in the Easter vacations in the big snow-gully on Great End," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must stay with us, Jack, when you come back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I come back, said Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know my creed. I could never pity a man who died on active service. I would very much like to come by that ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see there are worse things which can happen, he continued;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he shook his broad shoulders to unsaddle that fear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, this is the last ride. Let us gallop," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guessens," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do, Mrs. Adair?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have news for you, said Durrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two special items. One, Harry Feversham is to be married." }, { "from": "human", "value": "To whom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You should know. It was in your house in Hill...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are surprised to see me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I always am, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For always you exceed my thoughts of you;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall drive slowly, she said, as soon as his traps...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw this morning that your regiment was ordered from India to Egypt. You could have gone with it, had I not come in your way. There would have been chances of distinction. I have hindered you, and I am very sorry. Of course, you could not know that there was any possibility of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see I can put up with the absence of the people I care about, a little better perhaps than most people. I do not feel that I have lost them at all, and she cast about for a while as if her thought was difficult to express." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wanted to show you that, she interrupted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was there I used to post my letters to you during the anxious times." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The house is behind the trees to the right," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you do? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad to see you. Must make yourself at home. If you want any whiskey, stamp twice on the floor with your foot. The servants understand," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The post is in, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are letters, one, two, three, for you, and a little box." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must be empty," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is some mistake," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it mean? she asked. There was some perplexity in her voice, but nothing more than perplexity. The smile upon her face and the loyal confidence in her eyes showed she had never a doubt that his first word would lift it from her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think you understand, Harry. Here are three white feathers. They were sent to you in jest? Oh, of course in jest. But it is a cruel kind of jest--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They were sent in deadly earnest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Trench, Mr. Castleton, Mr. Willoughby. Do you know these men?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All three are officers of my old regiment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were they justly sent?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not believe that is true, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You could not look me in the face so steadily were it true. Your eyes would seek the floor, not mine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet it is true." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A telegram came. It was sent by Castleton. It reached me when Captain Trench and Mr. Willoughby were dining with me. It told me that my regiment would be ordered on active service in Egypt. Castleton was dining with a man likely to know, and I did not question the accuracy of hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And is this all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely it is enough," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think not, she answered, and she lowered her voice a little as she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We agreed, didn't we, that no fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All my life I have been afraid that some day I should play the coward, and from the very first I knew that I was destined for the army. I kept my fear to myself. There was no one to whom I could tell it. My mother was dead, and my father--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father, he resumed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yet you rode straight, interrupted Ethne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Durrance told me so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did I? said Feversham, vaguely." }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Were you afraid, too, of disgracing me? Was I in any way the cause that you resigned?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you had not been engaged to me, you would still have sent in your papers?" }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And all this--all that you have told to me, she exclaimed suddenly, with her face very stern," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But yesterday, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and she laughed in a queer empty way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Was it about the feathers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, answered Feversham, wearily. What did these persisten...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These, too, are yours. Will you take them, please?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are four," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should be going back, I think, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been some time away. Will you give me your arm? In the hall she looked at the clock." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only eleven o'clock, she said wearily." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look! she said, and Feversham suddenly felt all her weight upon his arms. Her face lost its colour and grew tired and very grey. Her eyes shut tightly and then opened again. He thought that she would faint." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The morning at last! she excl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no need, she said, standing with her back to him as she lighted a candle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have told my father. I told him everything." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still, I must wait and see him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well-- he said, and stopped. He snuffed the wick with the scissors and began again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you want any whiskey, stamp twice on the floor with your foot. The servants understand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I might have been out there in Egypt to-night, said Harry, in a quick troubled voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think of it! I might have been out there, sitting by a camp-fire in the desert, talking over the battle with Jack Durrance; or dead perhaps. What woul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you in the crowd, continued Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought that I would speak to you, because--do you remember, a long time ago you gave me your card? I have always kept it, because I have always feared that I would have reason to use it. Y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I dine here often when I am in town, said Sutch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It reminds me of a ship, said Sutch, with a smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can almost fancy myself in the gun-roo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said he, holding out his cigar-case." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take your time, Harry." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I came back across Lough Swilly early that morning, he said in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he asked with a laugh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At two o'clock to the minute." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am much to blame, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should have spoken that night at Broad Place, and I held my tongue. I shall hardly forgive myself. The knowledge that it was Muriel Graham's son who had thus brought ruin and disgrace upon himself was uppe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you ever read 'Hamlet'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You cannot stay in London, hiding by day, slinking about by night, he said with a shiver." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's too like--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's too like Wilmington, said he, quietly, recalling the story which his father ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows of the feathers? How many people? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give me their names." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Trench, Castleton, Willoughby," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All three are in Egypt. Besides, for the c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father continues my allowance. I shall need it, every penny of it--otherwise I should have taken nothing. But I am not to go home again. I did not mean to go home for a long while in any case, if at all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have kept them?" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are endless difficulties, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just to cite one: I am a civilian, these three are soldiers, surrounded by soldiers; so much the less opportunity therefore for a civilian." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I come back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have told you everything, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, I wait upon chance opportunities; the three may not come in Egypt. They may never come at all, and in that case I shall not com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only I had spoken, he said sadly. He dropped the end of his cigar into his coffee-cup, and standing up, reached for his hat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Many things are irrevocable, Harry, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We will move forward." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yet this way the caravans passed southwards to Erkoweet and the Khor Baraka. Here the Suakis built their summer-houses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And there Tewfik fought, and died with his four hundred men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fort," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some Arab has camped here," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And lately," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very lately," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Already the Guards are steaming out through the coral reefs toward Suez. A week and our turn comes, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What a God-forsaken country!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I come back to it," }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I shall come back, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you thinking about?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was drawing up the menu of the first dinner I will have when I reach London. I will eat it alone, I think, quite alone, and at Epitaux. It will begin with a watermelon. And you?" }, { "from": "huma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will draw that covert, said Durrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take a dozen men and surround it quietly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you hide?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was safer. I knew you for my friends. But, my gentleman, did you know me for yours?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You speak English," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know a few words." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That Arab had a strange story to tell me. He was Gordon's servant in Khartum. At the beginning of 1884, eighteen months ago in fact, Gordon gave him a letter which he was to take to Berber, whence the contents were to be telegraphed to Cairo. But Berber had just fallen when the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only they had let us go last year westward to the Nile, he said with a sort of passion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before Khartum had fallen, before Berber had surrendered. But they would not." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A week more--only a week," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall come back," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have you no friends?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I have friends. I shall have three months wherein to see them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Could you find the house again?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be wise to speak of this to no one except me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My husband died eighteen months ago, she explained in a quiet voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was thrown from his horse during a run with the Pytchley. He was killed at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had not heard, Durrance answered awk...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are Harry Feversham and his wife in town?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not yet, she said, after a pause, but immediately she corrected herself, and said a little hurriedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean--the marriage never took place." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And Miss Eustace? he asked after a pause, with a queer timidity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has married since?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then she is still at Ramelton?" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There were consequences still more distressing than the destruction of the house, she continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The fire was a beacon warning to Dermod's creditors for one thing, and Dermod, already overpowered with debts, fell in a day upon complete ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So she has lost everything?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She still has a home in Donegal," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And that means a great deal to her, said Durrance, slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I think you are right."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of what are you thinking?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That women suffer much more than men when the world goes wrong with them, he answered, and the answer was rather a question than a definite assertion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know very li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will talk of something else, if you please," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hanged if I know!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Sutch, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have forgotten me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel Durrance, to be sure, said the embarrassed lieutenant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is some while since we met, but I remem...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is only one person in the world, I believe, said Sutch," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. I have waited here a month for you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it is true, he admitted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can answer y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Sutch, regretfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There would be no disloyalty." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought that you would come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is yours, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were in Egypt. I could not well send it back to you there." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have hoped lately, since I knew, returned Durrance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I travelled once for four days amongst the mirages, he said,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he cried, drawing a deep breath," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He raised himself upon his elbow and turned suddenly towards her." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I used to imagine you out there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would have loved it--from the start before daybreak, in the dark, to the camp-fire at night. You would have been at home. I used to think so as I lay awake wondering how the world went with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To Wadi Halfa. For two years. I suppose so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall miss you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of what are you thinking?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you need not miss me, he said, and he was aware that sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is your father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor need you, said he, quickly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That difficulty can be surmounted. To tell the truth I was not thinking of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, of course, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I remember enough, she returned in a low voice," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And she struck one hand sharply into the other and cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But that I wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No doubt, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And she wrung her hands and cried," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And now you spoil it all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am for you, Ethne! There's the true straight channel, and upon my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will say good-bye here, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall be in England again in a year's time, said Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May I come back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I should be sorry to lose you alt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will walk a few yards with you, Colonel Durrance, said Dermod." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have a word for your ear." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have news for me? he asked, after some hesitation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "News of Harry Feversham? I thought that I would ask you before you went away." }, { "from": "human", "value": "None," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorr...