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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Willoughby and I have been talking of Mr. Feversham. At the same time she held out her hand to the captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-bye," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel Durrance has gone home, but he dines with us to-night. I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a little bit rough on me too, perhaps, Miss Eustace," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't believe that you hear a single word I am saying!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where was I then? What was I doing?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will play on your violin to-night, I think," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will--with all my heart." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have noticed the change in her to-night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Have I not? answered Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "One has waited for it, hoped for it, despaired of it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you so gl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall I play to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Musoline Overture, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You played it on the first evening when I came to Ramelton. I remember so well how you played it then. Play it again to-night. I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he could only hear! she thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he could only wake and know that what he heard was a message of friendship!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If he should hear, but" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He _must_ ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ethne, where do you think I heard that overture last played?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, you told me. At Ramelton, when you first came to Lennon House." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have heard it since, though it was not played by you. It was...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When was this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In February of this year. I will tell you about it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, please, tell me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was on the night before I started eastward into the desert--for the last time, said Durrance, and the deep longing and regret with which he dwelt upon that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That was in Febru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well? she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go on!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had been busy all that day in my office finishing up my work. I turned the key in the door at ten o'clock, thinking with relief that for six weeks I should not open i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You spoke to him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To whom? Oh, to Harry? returned Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, afterwards, when I found out it was he who was playing the zither." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, how did you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And after the song was ended?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The young man with his back towards me, Durrance resumed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was a melody from this overture?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you last year, Ethne, at Hill Street, Durrance resumed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Ethne interrupted suddenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was not for that reason that he went to Wadi Halfa." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you never knew what brought Mr. Feversham to Halfa? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you not ask him? Why didn't you? Why?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was a fool, said Durrance. There was almost as much regret in his voice now as there had been in hers; and because of that regret he did not remark the passion with which she had spoken." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall not easily forgive myself. He was my fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At the very last moment, Durrance resumed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you never saw Mr. Feversham again?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was away nine weeks. I came back blind," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I went at once to Cairo, and Calder came with me. There I told him of Harry Feversham, and how I had seen him at Tewfikieh. I asked Calder when he got back to Halfa to make inquiries, to find and help Harry Feversham if he could; I asked him, too, to let me know the result. I re...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That the two women and the old Greek had gone back northward on a steamer to Assouan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Feversham remained at Wadi Halfa, then? That is so, isn't it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Durrance replied." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What will happen to him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At the best, capture; at the worst, death. Death by starvation, or thirst, or at the hands of the Dervishes. But there is just a hope it might be only capture and imprisonment. You see he was white. If caught, h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you will wonder, said Durrance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I began to find out, he was saying," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should have definitely broken off our engagement, I suppose, at once. For I still believed, and as firmly as ever, that there must be more than friendship on both sides. But I had grown selfish. I warned you, Ethne, selfishness was the blind man's particular fault. I waited an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely, she thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you see, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could not speak of Harry Feversham until to-night. For I was afraid that what I had to tell you would hurt you very much. I was afraid that you still remembered him, in spite of those five years. I knew, of course...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ethne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ethne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not Ethne," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it is not Ethne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where has she gone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Into the garden. She ran across the te...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She ran as though she was in great trouble and hardly knew what she was doing, Mrs. Adair continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you cause that trouble?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought so, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's one thing which I don't understand, said Durrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I mean the change which we both noticed in Ethne to-night. I mistook the cause of it, that's evident. I was a fool. But there must have been a cause. The gift of laughter had be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you quite sure?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As sure as that you gave her the worst of news to-night," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I heard it only to-day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Ethne heard news of Feversham to-day, he s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am no casuist, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But here disloyalty seems the truest loyalty of all. Tell me what you know, Mrs. Adair. Something might be done perhaps for Feversham. From Assouan or Suakin something might be done. This news--this good news c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And that is all?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not quite. Captain Willoughby brought a token from Mr. Feversham. Ethne carried it back to the house in her hand. Her eyes were upon it all the way, her lips smiled at it. I do not think there is anything half so precio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was kind of you to tell me this, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you to add to your kindness. When I was in the drawing-room alone and you came to the window, how much did you hear? What were the first words?" }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Guessens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can turn the lights out and go to bed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you hear, Kaffir? cried a child, dancing with delight before him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you hear our ombeyehs? Blow louder! Blow louder!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring him in!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a spy of the Government from Wadi Halfa," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am a musician," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a spy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have told you the truth," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How should a Greek know of these matters?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Speak, Kaffir. You carry promises to Kordofan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Speak, Kaffir, said Nejoumi;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, he said to her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose that escape is possible from Omdurman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Possible? Yes, I think so, Durrance answered cheerfully." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course it is difficult and would in any case take time. Attempts, for instance, ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life would not be easy, I suppose, in the prison of Omdurman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Easy! exclaimed Durrance;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One would pray for death, said Ethne, slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She was on the point of adding" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unless there was a chance of escape, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And there is a chance--if...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall I be able to keep up the pretence when we are married, when we are always together?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you remember that I once mentioned a famous oculist at Wiesbaden? It seems advisable that I should go to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are recommended to go?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and to go alone." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am returning to London next week, he added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Feversham imprisoned at Omdurman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is to pay for his fault ten times over, then, she cried, in revolt against the disproportion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And the fault was his father's and mine too more than his ow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something can now be done." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was and is my friend; I cannot leave him there. I shall write to-night to Calder. Money will not be spared. He is my friend, Ethne. You will see. From Suakin or from Assouan something will be done." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Major Castleton is dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Castleton? he exclaimed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was a Castleton in Feversham's regiment. Is that the man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. He is dead?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You disliked Major Castleton so much?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never knew him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yet you are glad that he is dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am quite glad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel Trench is in Omdurman." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think that after my next visit to London I can pay a visit to Lieutenant Sutch." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel Durrance!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Colonel Durrance know that I am in the club?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Very well. Show him in." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you smoke? he said, and checked himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I beg your pardon." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'll smoke, Durrance answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not quite true that a man can't enjoy his t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are both of us curious, Durrance continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Abou Fatma, said Willoughby, slowly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, a man of the Kabbabish tribe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Abou Fatma? Willoughby repeate...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That makes me still more curious, Durrance continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mather and I were together on the last reconnaissance in '84, and we found Abou Fatma hiding in the bushes by the Sinkat fort. He told us about the Gordon letters which he had hidden...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wondered, he said slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I thought that Abou Fatma would hardly return to Berber. For, indeed, whoever undertook the job undertook it at the risk of his life, and, since Gordon was dead, for no very obvious reason." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to tell you why I was anxious to meet you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was because of Harry Feversham; and Captain Willoughby, who was congratulating himself that he was well out of an awkward position, fairly jumped in his seat. It was not Durr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, a great friend, said Durrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and I dined with him in his flat high up above St. James's Park just before we left England." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There were you and I and Feversham present, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Feversham had asked us there to tell us of his engagement to Miss Eustace. He had just come back from Dublin. That was almost the last we saw of him. He took a pull at his cigar an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And we shall never dine with Castleton again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Castleton wasn't there," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, but he was expected," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, not even expected, corrected Willoughby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He was dining elsewhere. He sent the telegram, you remember." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, yes, a telegr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Castleton was dining with a big man from the War Office that night," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I can rely on you, Willoughby, to help Feversham if ever you find him. Draw on me for money." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will do my best, said Willoughby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are going? I could have won a bet off you this after...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall astonish old Sutch," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to speak to Colonel Durrance before he goes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, said Ethne." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then we will say good-bye here, she added to Durrance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You will write fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are going, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In two days' time you will be at Wiesbaden and Ethne at Glenalla. We shall all be scattered. It will be lonely here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The house will seem very empty after you are a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How long shall you stay at Wiesbaden?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can hardly tell. But as long as it's advisable," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That tells me nothing at all. I suppose it was meant not to tell me anything." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You distrust me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have I no reason to distrust you? Why did you tell me of Captain Willoughby's coming? Why did you interfere?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I thought you ought to know." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you the truth brutally on purpose. I was so stung because you would not see what was so visible had you only the mind to see. I wanted to hurt you. I am a bad, bad woman, I suppose. There were you and she in the room talking together in the darkness; there was I alone upo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not think I would have minded so much, she continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something, surely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It does not prevent Ethne from shrinking from her friend, cried Mrs. Adair." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ethne wrote to you at Wadi Halfa out of pity, she went on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not just to Ethne." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a bad woman, I suppose. But after all, I have not had the happiest of lives. Perhaps there is something to be said for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was married almost straight from school. I was the merest girl. I knew nothing, and I was married to a man of whom I knew nothing. It was my mother's doing, and no doubt she thought that she was acting for the very b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And then you came, she continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I met you, and met you again. You went away upon your duties and you returned; and I learnt now, not that there was ever so much more, but just what that ever so much more was. But it was still, of cour...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I succeeded, continued Mrs. Adair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You told me that I had succeeded one morning in the Row. How glad I was! You did not notice it, I am sure. The next moment you took all my gladness from me by telling me you were starting for the Souda...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very sorry, Mrs. Adair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-bye," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Move the angareb into the shadow, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it a man or woman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A man. We are taking him to the hospital at Assouan, but we do not think that he will live. He fell from a palm tree three we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not a doctor by any chance?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a doctor, said the German," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then I will trespass upon your holiday and claim your professional assistance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was below there," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has been moved, said the German." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No doubt he has been moved. There is no one in the bows." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe the angareb is there, he said at length." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought it would be so," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Move the angareb from the bows, he said; and when they had obeyed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now take that covering off. I wish my friend who is a doctor to see the wound." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can do nothing, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps, in a hospital, with baths and dressings--! Relief will be given at all events; but more? I do not know. Here I could not even begin to do anything at all. Do these two men understand English?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You understand English?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where do you come from?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From Dongola?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Metemneh? From Berber? From Omdurman? Ah!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You were wounded there? No. Where then? At Berber? Yes. You were in prison at Omdurman and escaped? No. Yet you were wounded." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I foresaw there would be trouble. From the beginning I foresaw there would be trouble." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promised Harry to say nothing, he said; and drawing some makeshift of comfort from the words, repeated them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised faithfully in the Criterion grill-room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder what brings him, he said doubtfully; and then with an effort at courage," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it's no use shirking." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You received my telegram in time, then?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Luckily it found me at home." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have brought a bag. May I trespass upon you for a night's lodging?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By all mea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was very sorry, Durrance, to hear of your bad luck, he said, as he drove off up the hill." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know what it is myself to be suddenly stopped and put aside just when one is making way and the world is smoothing itself out, though my wound...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Compensations of what kind?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The chance of knowing himself for one thing, for the chief thing. He is brought up short, stopped in his career, perhaps disgraced. Sutch started a little at the word." }, { "from": "human", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The case you and I know of is not quite in point, he argued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are speaking of Harry Feversham." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who believed himself a coward, and was not one. He commits the fault which stops his career, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is true, he said stoutly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am very glad that she knows. I can quite see that from your point of view it would be better if she did not know. But I cannot help it. I am very glad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I like y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew, he exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew he wouldn't fail. Oh, I am glad you came to-day, Colonel Durrance. It was partly my fault, you see, that Harry Feversham ever incurred that charge of cowardice. I could have spoken--there was an opportunity ...