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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "says the dictionary," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "exhibited at Sharpe's Island for an hour before the steamer gets to it. We may take up a position on the deck so that the rail of the vessel's side will be in a line with the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and in the line of sight; and we shall find that in the whole...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "for any supposed" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "to make" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in canal construction, it is, of course, in order that, in their idea, a level cutting may be had for the water. How flagrantly, then, do they contradict themselves w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ipswich Lectures, says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jupiter is a large planet that turns on his axis, and why do not we turn?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to do so with even a shadow of consistency: for they dare not represent this horizon as a curved line, so well known is it that it is a straight one! The greatest astronomer of the age, in page 15 of his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lessons, gives an illustration o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lessons in Astronomy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as" }, { "from": "human", "value": "of its being" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Standing Order exists in the English Houses of Parliament that, in the cutting of canals, &c., the datum line employed shall be a" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "her light from the Sun. Now, since the Sun's rays are hot and the Moon's light sends with it no heat at all, it follows that the Sun and Moon are" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Sun is so far off that even moving from one side of the Earth to the other does not cause him to be seen in a different direction--at least the difference is too small to be measured." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The horizon always appeared on a level with the car." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We should dwell on this point until it appears to us as truly up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was made for" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because the Sun seems to rise in the east and set in the west, the Earth really spins in the opposite direction; that is, from west to east." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The appearances connected with the rising and setting of the Sun and stars may be due either to our earth being at rest and the Sun and stars travelling round it, or the earth itself turning round, while the Sun and stars are at rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "uses these words:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Diagram showing how, when we suppose the earth is round, we explain how it is that ships at sea appear as they do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "by the varying direction taken by the pendulum over a prepared table underneath--asserting that the table moved round under the pendulum, instead of the pendulum shifting and oscillating in different directions over the table! But, since it has been found that, as often as not, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the Astronomer Royal of England once said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The matter is left in a most delightful state of uncertainty, and I shall be very glad if anyone can help us out of it. But, since the whole Newtonian scheme is, to-day, in a most deplorable st...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And there are countless millions of these stars! And it takes 30,000,000 years for the light of some of these stars to reach us at 12,000,000 miles in a minute! And, says Mr. Proctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think a moderate estimate of the age of the Earth ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Although the path of the ship is on a spherical surface, yet we may represent the length of the path by a straight line on a plane surface. (And plane sailing is the rule.) Now, since it is altogether impossible to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, but if the Earth is a plane, we could go to the edge and tumble over! is a very common assertion. This is a conclusion that is formed too hastily, and facts overthrow it. The Earth certainly is, just what man by his observation finds it to be, and what Mr. Proctor himself sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but we can circumnavigate the South easily enough," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "at the rate of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the waters of seas and oceans could not, by any known law, be kept on its surface--the assertion that they could be retained under these circumstances being an outrage upon human understanding and credulity! But as the Ea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--far off or near. And then he forgets the fact! Mr. Proctor tells us, subsequently, that, if the traveller goes so far south that the North Star appears on the horizon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--if the Earth were a plane! Therefore, he argues," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By actual observation, says Schoedler, in his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Book of Nature," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is a fair sample of all astronomical reasoning. When a thing is classed amongst" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no inconsistency in supposing that the earth does move round the sun, says the Astronomer Royal of England. Certainly not, when theoretical astronomy is all supposition together! The inconsistency is in teaching the world that the thing supposed is a fact. Since, then, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cornell's Geography there is an" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Illustrated proof of the Form of the Earth. A curved line on which is represented a ship in four positions, as she sails away from an observer, is an arc of 72 degrees, or one-fifth of the supposed circum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cornell's Intermediate Geography, (1881) page 12, is an" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Illustration of the Natural Divisions of Land and Water." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cornell's Geography," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The simplicity with which the seasons are explained by the revolution of the Earth in her orbit and the obliquity of the ecliptic, may certainly be adduced as a strong presumptive proof of the correctness --of the Newtonian theory;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WANTED.--A Scholar of ripe attainments to review Carpenter's 'One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe.' Liberal remuneration offered. Apply to Wm. Carpenter, 71 Chew Street, Baltimore. N. B.--No one need apply who has not courage enough to append his name to the Review ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This can only be described as an extraordinary book.... His arguments are certainly plausible and ingenious, and even the reader who does not agree with him will find a singular interest and fascination in analyzing the 'one hundred proofs.'... The proofs are set forth in brief,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a Globe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One hundred difficulties for young students of astronomy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is not a globe" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Hundred Proofs for the purpose of reviewing them. The writer is Professor of Mathematics at the High School, Auburn, N. Y., and, in his application for the pamphlet, says:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Am a Yale graduate and a Yale Law School man: took the John ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he will not dare to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "New York World," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's round like a ball, sir. No. He'll have to use the unpoetic formula," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's flat like a pancake, sir." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Record, of Philadelphia, June 5, 1886, has the following, in the Literary Notes:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Under the title One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe, Mr. William Carpenter, of Baltimore, publishes a pamphlet which is interesting on accou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe, and I should be glad to receive your opinion of this work to insert in the said appendix. I can offer you from a few lines to a page, or two if necessary. Of course, if this work as a whole be a fraud, it must be fraudulent in al...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One Hundred Proofs that the Earth is Not a Globe." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scribner's Monthly for the following remarks concerning this institution:--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the will of Johns Hopkins, a merchant of Baltimore, the sum of $7,000,000 was devoted to the endowment of a University and a Hospital, $3,500,000 being devot...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Gilman is a graduate of Yale College, and for several years before his call to California, was a Professor in that institution, taking an active part in the organization and development of 'The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College,' at New Haven. Upon receiving an inv...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Through the ice? No. How you do it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know where Captain Cook was born?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was born at Marton, a village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The north winds do blow, And we shall have snow, What will poor Robin do t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GOOD-BYE, RHODA POLLY" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "THE CHILDREN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THREE'S COMPANY" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "READY!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "HELL UPSIDE DOWN!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TATTER OF SCARLET" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Les Anglais to them--and so familiar with the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Grands," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Internationale," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "France has been betrayed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How the new armies of the Third Republic would liberate Paris and sweep the Prussians back to Berlin. From every side brave patriots were even now closing in upon the beleaguered city. Ha, then the spiked helme...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Dad doesn't want me, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, I know that. He would most likely tan me well for breaking bounds, but I can't bear being cooped up here doing silly mathematics when over yonder----But listen to them!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are no Germans nearer than Toul or Besançon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Tatter of Scarlet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The History and Growth of Italian Art" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Last Supper" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He could not get out o' the nursery quick enough, yet for all that he would be back within the hour." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aängus, he would say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I kenna wha it is ye favour--nane o' your faither's folk at any rate--all chestnut-brown and quick as an eel. No wonder ye can tie knots in yoursel' at the parallel bars that were siccan a trouble to set up for ye ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I never telled him sae, he would conclude;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Renard by Name and Renard by Nature" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, gentlemen, he said, as he came in and sat down in our one arm-chair," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You understood what the disturbance was about over there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew, said Deventer, before I could stop him," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have had Napoleons of victory and Napoleons of disaster--republics of guillotine and republics of veiled Cæsarism. And now we have a third which is a house divided against itself. Listen well, young men--the Bible speaks the truth--it cannot stand. Even now the time for its f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halt there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to help _my_ father, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't you run off without telling yours what you mean to do. He can't prevent you, if you have made your mind up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He won't try--he will only be g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, I said, as if my calling hours were the most ordinary in the world," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, Angus, where do you come from? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it late? Won't you come in? Are you on your way back to college?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, father, I said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ought to be, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see you are glad you went?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My governor thinks a lot of yours!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! And leave the bridge unguarded! cried his companion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Either shoot them out of hand, say I, or let them go on to seek their Garibaldi. They wear the red as well as we. We have heard of his army at Dijon, but his son is recruiting a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are besieged, he whispered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lend me your lantern and I will Morse them a message." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The sentinel may not be able to read it off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, but he will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have gone to waken my father, he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, they daren't do anything in these parts without the old bird. He is quite a different man from the one you saw poking about among your father's books, or drinking in his wisdom. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh--knows--the--door--under--the--main-outer--staircase." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, said Hugh," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I always went in that way when my feet were dirty. Come on!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What, Jack Jaikes!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aye, just Jack Jaikes same as yesterday, and eh, but the chief is going to leather ye properly afore he sends ye back to school." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we are not going to school any more!" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did anyone send you word that you were to come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You did not want to go and see your father, he whispered, as we stood close together, panting in the dark of the second landing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You came away ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come over here, Hugh--and you, Angus Cawdor--I am Rhoda Polly." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was Doctor Laidlaw of Coatbridge. He was Rhoda Polly's. A fine sharp man was Doctor Laidlaw, sandy-whiskered, but given to profane swearing. Not that he ever swore in _my_ presence, but he had the name for it among the colliers and ironworkers." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And there was Liz, poor thing. She had to put up with a 'locum' at Herbestal, in Belgium, before your father came here. There was not an English doctor in the place, but it made no great difference, for Madame Batyer was wiser than a whole college of doctors, and I will always t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come from school without leave--run away--good! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you made it all right with father?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet--that is--the fact is---we thought you might as well come along with us, Rhoda P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has been lying behind the chimney till he is stiff, whispered Rhoda Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give him time to limber himself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better not keep him waiting, said Rhoda Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take you. He has a room for himself fitted up on the third floor." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all this, boys? said Dennis Deventer gruffly, as soon as he caught sight of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, you Rhoda Polly, hold your tongue! You are not put up to tell their story. Come--out with it. What is it?" }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew that they would be besieging you, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You did pretty well in your examinations--they tell me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Second--Cawdor was first. He coached me, or I should never have got within smelling distance. As it was we halved the honours, and were asked to dine with the _proviseur_ and profe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, you may be useful. Can you shoot?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fairly, Deventer admitted," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gilt-edged nonsense--duelling, old Dennis broke out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, cried Hugh gleefully," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it was Cawdor being there that saved you, said Rhoda Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father got so keen about Angus not spending his father's money, that he forgot about you. Now, you have only to run straight and do as you are bid----" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The divils would be breaking up the Company's machinery if I did not keep all their little plans in the back of my head. And that's none so easy, young Cawdor, for mark me this, 'tis easy to keep track of what a clever man will imagine to do. You have only to think what you woul...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a flea-bite, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I defend the Château because of my wife and daughters. But the business began when the men saw the masters flaunting their riches, entertaining the Emperor and Empress at the cost of millions on the very...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind your feet, she whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear machine-guns three, four, and six, he ordered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Train them on the doors of the fitting-shed. There are lights over yonder I don't like, and I can sniff the paraffin in the air!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you there, Jack Jaikes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aim well in front of them, and let them have it as soon as they get close to the buildings. The ricochet from the walls will scare them as well as anyth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "B-r-r-r! B-r-r-r!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me Number 27, quick! commanded Dennis Deventer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know who that man is, and I am sorry, but he must be stopped." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was a good workman too--yet that does not help a man when once the maggot begins to gnaw underneath the brain pan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The steam hammer, said Jack Jaikes;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are trying to get a big field-gun ready for us. Luckily we have sent off the last we had in store. But they can't do it. At least they can't do it in time. There are good workmen and capital fitt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But when Gambetta lost his power, and Thiers became dictator, or president, or something, Gaston Cremieux could not long remain Procureur. They stripped him of his office, and gave it to a dry-as-dust lawyer who did as the military tribunals bade him." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been over at Nîmes seeing the family of my friend Rossel, he explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard there was some trouble at the works, so I took Aramon-les-Ateliers on my way back to Marseilles." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I could break that young scoundrel's neck I would be doing some good. He is at the bottom of all this trouble. I went to one of his speechifyings to see what he was after, and he led them like a flock of lambs. He was preaching revolt and red revolution, so far as I could mak...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As for Cremieux and my father, they understood each other from the first. It was wonderful to find how much they had in common. And he will help to stop the rioting. He says he will not go away from Aramon till the men are back at work. Cremieux's opinion is that these sporadic ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anything I can do for you, Chief?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing, said Dennis Deventer, over his shoulder," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Chief, answered Jaikes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You pirate, he cried," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Liz, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will have no nonsense of _that_ kind!" } ]