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43766
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all an accident, sir! I have no intention of opening an engagement!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark my words! one of the old barnacles shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain Porter won't find the Britisher so willin' to let him sneak out of a small hole; an' if the time ever comes when he can get at us unfairly, we may count on his doin' it." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't worry your heads about him, one of the crew replied with a grin." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've got no bloomin' marines here, an' every man jack of us has it well in mind that he's to get what's due him this time. He'll stay where he is until we make the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was afterward generally believed that Hillyar had positive orders to attack the _Essex_, even in a neutral South American port, and that his intentions were hostile, until the moment when he discovered his imminent peril in the power of the gallant American." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, lad, I don't, he replied promptly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's showin' yourself a fool to claim that all the Yankees are brave, an' all the Britishers cowards. The commander of the _Phoebe_ has had his orders to capture or sink us. He and his consort toge...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God and Our Country; British Sailors' Best Rights: Traitors Offend Both." } ]
43766
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Free Trade and Sailors' Rights!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God, Our Country, and Liberty; Tyrants Offend Them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This time we've got them, and we'll show how Yankees fight!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This conduct excited a good deal of feeling among the officers of the _Essex_, who rightly judged that the challenge should not have been given if it was not the intention of the enemy to engage singly. Taking all these circumstances in connection, there can be little question t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon we'll hold to the ground, lad, the old man said as he gazed around after the general fashion of sailormen before replying to a question regarding the weather." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That 'ere Britisher is so careful of himself that he mightn't think ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The port cable has carried away!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a tight squeeze!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At one time I counted it as a certainty that we must run on such a course as would allow the Britishers to rake us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look yonder, lad, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you blind that you can't see both the Britishers comin' down upon us with motto flags and jacks set? The brave Captain Hillyar whom our commander spared when we might have sent him to the bottom, is count...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Phoebe_ is punishing us terribly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon the fumes of powder an' blood have gone to your head, lad. Quiet down a bit, or you'll need to be sent into the cockpit." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've whipped the Britishers! I shouted, trying vainly to squirm out of the old sailor's grasp." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The engagement lasted nearly two hours and a half, the long guns of the _Essex_, it is said, having been fired no less than seventy-five times, each, in broadside. The enemy must have thrown, agreeably to the statements made at the time, not less than seven hundred 18-pound shot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From the laurel's fairest bough Let the muse her garland twine, To adorn our Porter's brow, Who, beyond the burning line, Led his caravan of tars o'er the tide. To the pilgrims fill the bowl, Who, around the southern pole, Saw new constellations roll, For their guide." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "OLD IRONSIDES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Constitution" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Philadelphia, and of the most famous" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Old Ironsides" } ]
43766
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Young Reporter" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The author is thoroughly acquainted with the history and records of the far-famed land of the Incas, and the story is full of interest historically as well as a work of excellent romance and fiction." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Wetmore has shown in 'Incaland' ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cadet Standish of the St. Louis Mr. William Drysdale tells the story of an American boy to whom the Spanish war brought some novel and exciting experiences. The lad took part in the cable cutting off Guantanamo, the first exploit in which the great" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "War of the Revolution Series" } ]
929738
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "London," } ]
679951
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have the general's permission to go with him to meet Brant," } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want anyone touching anything. Please don't interfere." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't mean to interfere, my wife told him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only wanted to help." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't want any...
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's a lot of hammering you're doing, son," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the only way I can get these boxes open, and don't call me son." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like to disturb you, Mr. Gretch, but Mrs. Burroughs is a little ups...
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You stop your nonsense this minute and come down to breakfast!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not hungry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You open this door! she ordered and, by George, he did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your _whiskab...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Please go away, he begged." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've got work to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There'll be no work for you, sonny. Not until you're well. We'll take care of you." } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From now on, you're going to have three meals a day and eight hours sleep, and in between you can play on your _whiskaboom_ all you please." } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you all right?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I'm all right, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter with you?" } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jack!" } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Professor Einstein wouldn't have liked this! he moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Something went wrong," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't harness the fourth--I chopped off the third dimension! Einstein wouldn't have approved!" } ]
51132
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what to do, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he thinks more of his money than he does of his own son, Mrs. Burroughs said," } ]
498987
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sick, lord? nay--not sick, 'tis but that I--I--" } ]
532708
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me do it for you, and part it straight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BY HEAVEN, CRIED RUY LOPEZ," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE DUKE SHALL FINISH HIS GAME!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is he dead?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sire," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Great Sovereign of Spain, Calavar continued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has been judged by our Royal Court of Justice, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sire! replied the executioner," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, that is granted! replied Philip, in a tone of relief." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our rights and our privileges!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the bones of Campeador! he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By the soul of St. Jago! I have sworn neither to eat nor sleep until the bleeding head of Don Gusman lies before me. As I h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are the King! he said, gravely, with the calm which presages a storm;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If your Majesty pleases----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Silence, my Lord Bishop! replied the King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Obey...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With a game of chess, gentlemen, said the King, smiling," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "RUY LOPEZ ENTERED THE CELL." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In three hours I shall be at your disposal." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have met before in happier circumstances," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is true," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Much happier, repeated the Duke, absently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you remember, when you played your celebrated...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THEY KNELT DOWN TOGETHER." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This delay is torture, cried the Duke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why do they not cut off the prisoners at once, instead of stretching their souls upon such a rack of agony? An eternity of suf...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How would a game of chess--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An excellent idea! cried Don Gusman, recalled to himself by this singular proposal." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A farewell game of chess." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You consen...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE GAME BECAME MORE AND MORE COMPLICATED." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must finish this game," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is impossible," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, fellow, the game is mine! I can force mate in a few moves. Let me play it out." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall not move until the game is over. In half an hour my head shall be at your disposal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My lord, replied Calavar," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I respect you deeply, but I cannot grant you this request. I answer for y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first of you who passes this limit dies! he cried in a loud voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Courage, Duke!--to the attack! There are only four of these miscreants. The last desire of your Grace shall be gratified, were I to lose my life in the attempt. And ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you promise me faithfully to give yourself up in half an hour?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I promise," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Play on, then," } ]
30222
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never have I played in the presence of such a noble company! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bear witness, rascals, that at least once in my life I have beaten Don Lopez." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I were only sure of escaping from this ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The traitor dies!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The hour is passed, Count of Biscay, said Philip, turning to Don Ramirez," }, { "from": "human", "value": "My enemy, sire?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you repeat my words, Count? repli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sire! he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before Dona Estella shall belong to this man, thought D'Ossuna," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will have vengeance or perish in the attempt. Tomorrow shall be the day of my revenge." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My first public duty to-day shall be to sign these papers, said the King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The executioner has already punished treason; it is now time for the King to recompense fidelity." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By my father's soul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Heaven! may this unjust and rash act which is about to take place fall upon the head of him who is the instigator of this treachery; but let not my blood recoil upon the head of my King." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WHAT DO I BEHOLD?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing that belongs to you, except this axe, shall touch a Gusman, he said, taking off his ruff himself and placing his head upon the block." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strike! he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am ready!" } ]
30222
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He lives!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is saved! repeated D'Ossuna." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My beloved cousin, I never hoped to have seen you alive again. God in His mercy has not let the innocent perish for the guilty. God be praised!" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gusman, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been very unjust. I can never forgive my folly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sire, replied the Duke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I desire, he said," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madge Robertson, and notwithstanding a very important visit one morning in August twenty-three years ago to St. Saviour's, Plymouth Grove, Manchester, when she became the wife of Mr. William Hunter Grimston, there are many who still know and speak of her by her happily-remembere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Jubilee dog, she cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bought her on Jubilee Day, and, curiously enough, Mr. Kendal bought one too, neither of us telling the other we were going to make such canine purchases." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The ima...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the prisoner charged with, constable?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Murder, my lord," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Prisoner, are you guilty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, my lord," }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And in later years it was just the same with Tom. He could never pass by a common cookshop, in front of the windows of which was often a crowd of men, women, and children, looking on with longing eyes, without getting them inside and giving them a fill to their hearts' content. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE SQUIRE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sweethearts, and I am reminded that the gifted actor and actress were the first to appear before the Queen after a period of five-and-twenty years, during which Her Majesty had never seen a play, the performance that night c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These came from California, Mrs. Kendal explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No sooner are you out of the train than the Indians tomahawk you! Look at this bow and arrow." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Kendals away--silver jugs, souvenir spoons...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SHAKESPEARE AND BACON" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shakespeare and Bacon, suggests the two extremes of taste to a nicety. Whilst a young enthusiast is declaiming Shakespeare, one of his listeners--doubtless, equally enthusiastic, but with an eye for victuals--is in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Her late Royal Highness, Mrs. Kendal said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yours very sincerely, AUGUSTA." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Princess Mary, asking Mrs. Kendal to come to St. James's Palace at once. Written on a black-edged envelope were these words:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To dearest Mrs. Grimston Kendal. A ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am only a common-place woman, she said to me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I used to be ever so light-hearted--now, I'm a morbid creature. Here we are sitting down by the fireside. I may tell you happy reminiscences that may make one merry, and all the time I sho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I acted _Eva_ in 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' when I was eight. I think I was always a sad child--I looked forty when I was fifteen. After little _Eva_ I used to play anything." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was dressed in my mother's clothes, Mrs. Kendal said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And who--who is this child?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Madge Robertson, the manager answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then let the young woman ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was kindness itself through it all, Mrs. Kendal assured me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dreams," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alfred Wigan played in 'Dreams,' continued Mrs. Kendal." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "His wife was one of the kindest women I ever met. She gave me a gold bracelet for a very curious little service I used to render her husband every night. He had to sing a song in '...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In one part of the play he would cry out, 'Give me thy hand, Desdemona!' and certainly the effect of my hand in his huge grasp was impressive. Then in the last act he would pull me from the couch by the hair of my head. Oh! there was something in his realism, I can tell you!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As You Like It," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray thee, marry us!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you, Orlando, have to wife this Rosalind?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, _Rosalind_ pertly remarks," }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Six Months After Marriage, which Jefferson caught sight of at the New York Dramatic Bazaar, and reminded Mr. Kendal to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and a portrait or two of Mrs. Kendal and the children." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hetty Sorrell at ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only knew him as an actor at the Lyceum, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was just what I wanted, so I followed the person who had so kindly interested himself in my scribble. He proved to be Mr. Mowbray, the manager of the theatre. The picture behind the scenes that night was a perfect Elysium to me. I think Mowbray must have noticed the impressio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My only reply was that I would think about it. In the meantime I went to the Court, from there to the Prince of Wales's to play in 'Diplomacy'--it ran a year--'Peril' and 'London Assurance.' Then I returned to the Court again, and during this time Lord Newry had practically gutt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HE SKETCHED THE NEW STORY." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I COULD SMELL HIS PIPE THROUGH THE KEYHOLE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "HIS MANUSCRIPT RAGGED BUT UNREAD." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE STOOD PHARAZYN." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And they threw him out with my name on his lips. And I followed, and floored a brute who was handling him roughly. And nothing happened to me--because of what happened to Pharazyn!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What could I do? What proof had I? He had burnt them ev...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "should not be made to read" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here--look at me! you can imagine a pelican cleanliness-missionary saying to the stork." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See how white and clean I keep all my feathers!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Um, says the stork," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The fine points of an elephant, sahib, said our guide Hassan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to hear that an elephant has some qualities which recommend it, said Denviers, good-humouredly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should think that the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE SAHIB SHALL BE OBEYED." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Hassan, said Denviers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the Koran, sahib, began the Arab," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which are, of course, unimpeachable, responded Denviers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anyone could tell that fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE BUDDHIST PRIESTS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Nat had been persuaded to destroy only one victim on each seventh evening at dusk, and had appointed him to see that certain conditions were not broken. He was to have a hut at his disposal, and into this the men were to go by lot, and thus the Nat would obtain a victim when...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE AVENUE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that is the one into which we seek to enter; it is situated according to the position in which the Kachyen said it was, and, besides, it bears a strange proof of the story which ye have listened to with such ill-concealed disbelief." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do ye seek?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are travellers who wished to see a Kachyen village, responded Denviers," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is one of them, and in a short time even he will never be seen again." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That way ye came, that way shall ye depart. Food for ye I have not, nor would I give it if I had." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What shall we do, Frank? I don't think our opportunity of seeing what may transpire will be as good within the hut as without it. Whatever...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I feel sorry for this Kachyen, said Denviers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will have a dreadful five minutes of it, I expect; but it is our only way of preventing, if possible, such an affair from occurring again." } ]