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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but I am glad you came," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You understand at all events, said Durrance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So Miss Eustace told you the story, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, indeed, replied Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "She said not a word about it, she never showed me the feather, she even forbade Willoughby to hint of it, she sent h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then how did you learn the story?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some one else told me. I was told that Willoughby had come, and that he had brought a white feather, and that Ethne had taken it from him. Never mind by whom. That gave me a clue. I lay in wait for Will...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have said nothing which could in any way suggest that I was surprised," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is quite true, but you are none the less surprised, continued Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't blame you. You could not know tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was acquainted with the men who sent them, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trench, Castleton, Willoughby. I met them daily in Suakin, just ordinary officers, one rather shrewd, the second quite commonplace, the third distinctly stupid. I saw them going quie...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't live within sight of the sea," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I dare not," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I understand. You care for it too much. You would have the full knowledge of your loss presented to your eyes each moment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harry Feversham must come back to England. He has done enough to redeem his honour." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was waiting for you to say that. I wanted you to realise without any suggestion of mine that Harry must return. It was with that object that I came." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His return will not really trouble you or your wife, since Miss Eustace has forgotten him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She has not forgotten him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But she kept silence, even after Willoughby had brought the feather back....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very glad of that, said Durrance, quietly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very glad that Ethne has not forgotten him. It is a little hard on me, perhaps, who have not much left. It would have been less hard if two years ago you had told me the whole truth, wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promised Harry in the most solemn way that I would tell no one until he came back himself. I was sorely tempted to tell you, but I had given my word. Even if Harry never came back, if I obtained sure knowledg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is something which it is fair you should know, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When Harry went away to redeem his honour, if the opportunity should come, he had no hope, indeed he had no wish, that Miss Eustace should wait for him. She was the spur to u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is kind of you to tell me that, said Durrance, and he smiled at the lieutenant with a great friendliness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For I can guess what the words cost you. But you have done Harry Feversham no harm by speaking them. For, as I told you, Ethne ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What am I to do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have thought it out, returned Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You must go to Suakin. I will give you a letter to Willoughby, who is Deputy-Governor, and another to a Greek merchant there whom I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will stay at Suakin as your base of operations," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, answered Sutch, and he rose from his chair." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will start as soon as you give me the letters." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no need of a candle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have said very little to you in the way of sympathy, said Sutch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not know that you would welcome it. But I am sorry. I am very sorry." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks, said Durrance, simply. He stood for a mom...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall be ready this afternoon, he said briskly to Durrance as they breakfasted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall catch the night mail to the Continent. We might go up to London together; for London is on your way to Wiesbaden." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very thoughtful for others," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not to my credit. I practise thoughtfulness for others out of an instinct of self-preservation, that's all, said Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Selfishness is the natural ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have joined the veterans before your time, Durrance, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I read of it in a newspaper. I would have written had I known where to write." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything through ill-luck or bad management is going to the devil, sir, he exclaimed irritably." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even you, Durrance, you are not the same man who walked with me on my terrace two years ago." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I come upon the same business," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I give you the same answer. I have nothing to say about Harry Feversham. I will not discuss him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would not please you, then, to know where Harry Feversham has been, and how he has lived during the last five years?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not in the least, Colonel Durrance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor on what business he has been en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What I don't understand, he said slowly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did it with a definite object. It is for you to say, of course, but for my part I do not see why Harry should not come home and enter in again to all that he lost." }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said briskly, and as though the matter were of no particular importance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, General. If you can have me driven to the station, I can catch a train to town. There's one at six." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the way, said Feversham," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is my right, of course," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly. I will let you know w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't I hear, Durrance, he said with an air of carelessness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I said that Harry would regain all that he had lost except his career," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no reason why he should not come back, he said. He looked up at the pictures. The dead Fevershams in their uniforms would not be disgraced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No reason in the world, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, plea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Into the House of Stone!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I were to fall! If I were to fall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I were to fall! he gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O God, if I were to fall! and he shouted aloud to his neighbour--for in that clamour nothing less than a shout was audible--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it you, Ibrahim? and a like shout...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Effendi, I am here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I were to fall!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Make room, he cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Make room," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will fall, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Back! he cried violently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't fall, cried Trench, and he caught his fellow-captive by the arm." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ibrahim, help! God, if he were to fall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he were to fall!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shaitan! They are mad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will die before morning, he cried to Ibrahim," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sit beside him, said the Hadendoa." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can keep them back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw the riding lights of the yachts--and the reflections shortening and lengthening as the water rippled--there was a band, too, as we passed the pier-head. What was it playing? Not the overture--and I don't think that I remember any other tune.... And he laughed with a crazy ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is funny that those three faces were always the same ... the man in the tent with the lancet in his hand, and the man in the back room off Piccadilly ... and mine. Funny and not quite right. No, I don't think that was quite right either. They get quite big, too, just when you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you take it back? he asked, with a great deal of hesitation and timidity." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Really? The others have, all except the man who died at Tamai. And you will too! He spoke as though he could hardly believe some piece of great good fortune ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw your light that morning ... you put it out suddenly ... did you hear my step on the gravel?... I thought you did, it hurt rather, and then he broke out into an emphatic protest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, I had no idea that you would wait. I had no ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, one of the reasons why I never said anything that night to you about what I intended was, I think, that I did not wish you to wait or have any suspicion of what I was going to attempt. And then expostulation ceased, and he began to speak in a tone of interest." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Durrance stood at the window, after I had told them about you, Ethne," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All the time when I was proposing to send in my papers, after the telegram had come, he stood at the window of my rooms with his back to me, looking out across the park. I fancied he blamed me. But I think now he was making up his mind to lose you.... I wonder." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God! whispered Trench." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was the name Ethne? Was it? Was it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three little white feathers, were the words. Trench leaned back against the wall. It was he who had devised that message." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three little white feathers, the voice repeated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This afternoon we we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Willoughby took his feather back --and upon that Feversham broke off. His voice rambled. He seemed to be running somewhere amid sandhills which continually shifted and danced about him as he ran, so that he could not tell which way he went. He was in the last stage of fatigue, t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "During the siege, thought Trench." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "While we were there, then, he was herding with the camel-drivers in the bazaar learning their tongues, watching for his chance. Three years of it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am in the prison at Omdurman, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been here a long while," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Three years." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three years of it, he murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was afraid that I might not find you alive." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no one to bring you food?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. A boy should come. He should bring news as well." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For whom do you come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For Joseppi, the Greek," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can talk here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, we can talk here. Why have you come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was captured in the desert, on the Arbain road," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, masquerading as a lunatic musician who had wandered out of Wadi Halfa with a zither. I know. B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she has now seen Willoughby; perhaps she has now taken his feather." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take mine back now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, not yet," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet,--then you _have_ a plan for our escape," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I said nothing of it, he pleaded," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not a single word. So that I myself was in doubt, and did not dare to believe," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So it's true, he said in a quiet wondering voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be a morning when we shall not drag ourselves out of the House of Stone. There will be nights when we shall sleep in beds, actually in beds. There will be-- He stopped with a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a better way than breaking through the wall, said Trench, and he uttered a laugh as he spoke and pointed to a prisoner with a great load upon his back who had fallen upon his face in the water, and encumbered by his fetters, pressed down by his load, was vainly struggli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only three more days," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you awake?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, and with some hesitation he made that confidence which he had repressed on the day when they sat upon the foreshore of the Nile." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I am not laughing, he answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I understand." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will be strange to find them dim and small again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be compensations, answered Feversham, with a laugh; and they fell to making plans of what they would do when they had crossed the desert and the Mediterranean and the conti...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There goes the Great Bear, said Trench, suddenly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is late." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Three more days," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only three more days," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Three more days." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a few days he will be well, said Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is nothing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is _Umm Sabbah_," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is nothing, he repeated in a sort of passionate obstinacy; but in his mind there ran another question," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will the men with the camels wait?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the last. To-night he will die." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, replied Feversham," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And he spoke again with a passionate obstinacy. He was no longer thinking of the man in the blue robe outside the prison walls, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would not have left you, but I was compelled. We have been unloading boats all day." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long have I lain ill?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thirteen days."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Too late? Then the man in the blue gown has gone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. He spoke to me yesterday by the river. The camel men would wait no longer. They were afraid of detection, and meant to return whether we went with them or not." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are they digging?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A well," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A well? said Trench, fretfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's our last hope gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I daren't look at it, he said in a broken voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been building our own coffin, Feversham, that's the truth of it. And then he cast up his arms and cried aloud:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will they never come up...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He will never come," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely he will--if he is alive, said Feversham." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But is he alive?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Verily God is good to you, you men from the bad world, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are to look upon the countenance of the Khalifa. How happy you should be!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does he want with us? Is this the end?" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know nothing whatever about the making of gunpowder except that crystals are used, said Trench." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But we shall leave the prison each day, and that is something, though we return each night. Who knows when a chance of escape may come?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something has happened to Abou Fatma, said Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has been caught at Berber perhaps. In some way he has been delayed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He will not come," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man will bring to you a box of matches. When he comes trust him.--Sutch. And he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who is Sutch?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A great friend of mine, said Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose they keep us in the prison to-day, he whispered in a shaking voice, plucking at Feversham." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It has just occurred to me! Suppose they did that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why should they?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is mad! said Trench, as the gaolers secured him; and since Trench was unmanned that morning he began to speak rapidly and almost with incoherence." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's what I have feared, Feversham, that I should go mad. To die, even here, one cou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Among the storehouses," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am Abdul Kader, he began at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have come to arrange for your escape. But at present flight is impossible;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Impossible?"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have nothing with which to write," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be quick, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Write quickly, lest we be discovered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is the letter," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The camels are ready in the desert, ten miles to the west." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Abou Fatma!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hoosh! returned Abou Fatma," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is it true?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said Abou." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be no moon to-night. How long before they discover you are gone?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Who knows? Perhaps already Idris has missed us. Perhaps he will not till morning. There are many p...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mount, said Abou Fatma." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bring its head round and hold it as you mount." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know the trick," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ten...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quicker, said Trench, between his teeth." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Already Idris may have missed us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Even if he has, replied Feversham," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I no longer see the fires of Omdurman." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The golden blot, eh, very low down?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Instanna!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The new camels are here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are good camels?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of the Anafi breed, answered Abou Fatma." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quick! Quick!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The arms? said Trench." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is ammunition?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, yes, replied Abou Fatma," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Trench, and he laughed with a great thrill of joy in the laugh." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I don't mind. Let them follow from Omdurman! One thing is certain now: I shall never go back there; no, not even if they overtake us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are the Effendi tired? asked Abou Fatma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will they stop and eat? There is food upon the saddle of each camel." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; we can eat as we go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The road from Berber to Merowi, said Abou Fatma." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "North of it we turn east to the river. We cross that road to-night; and if God wills, to-morrow evening we shall have crossed the Nile." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If God...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must build a circle of stones, said Abou Fatma," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have dates, too," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then do not stir from the hiding-place till I come back. I will take your camels, and bring you back fresh ones in the evening." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God be thanked! said Abou Fatma." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have good news for you, and bad news too. The boat is ready, our friends are waiting for us, camels are prepared for you on the caravan track b...