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[ { "from": "human", "value": "READY!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hey, Dennis, hold hard there! Or, plaintively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, Dennis, you _know_ that is not true!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You, Dennis!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I say, said Rhoda Polly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Holding hands too, and my head----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glory, I'm glad it wasn't Hugh who caught us--then we s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know the streets of Aramon as well as I do, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, he added," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rhoda Polly is coming. If so, don't let her fire, and, of course, don't fire yourself. You are the watch, so keep all dark above. Not a light, not a cigarette. And when Rhoda Polly comes, make her stay behind those ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These gutter scrapings of a hundred ports and a thousand prisons was what he called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He recognised, however, it was no use holding back when the Chief said" }, { "from": "human", "value": "March!" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I met Jack Jaikes, she explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He said he knew I was coming and had made all snug for me. How did he know? You did not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He must have guessed, Rhoda Polly--perhaps it was something you said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was dynamite, said Rhoda Polly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see something they have got in there. It is like a bear on end--you know--when it is dancing." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Try again, Rhoda Polly. Try the night-glass!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can do better without it, Jack Jaikes--yes, I se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are firing solid shell at us," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now I must get a gun to play upon them. It will need something big, for though we can scourge their gun emplacement with mitraille fire, the merit of their plan is that the gunners lie hid in a ditch. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No harm done this journey, just topped us and brought down a few stones. But this can't last. They will get the range and make hay of us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Better get down out of that, Rhoda Polly, he called back, as his feet clattered among the fallen b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's no use! Tell them to stop, called out Rhoda Polly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will make me miss my chance, she mourned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gunners can do what they like behind that. I wish Jack Jaikes had had more sense. What is the use of shooting at sparrows' nests under the eaves when the men are down in a ditch?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got him, she whispered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I saw him coming out and before he could get the shell into the muzzle, I fired. He dropped the shell and fell on top of it. What a pity it did not go off!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rhoda Polly has shot the gunner--now is your time!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bang! said No. 27." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Winged him! But he made off! said the marksman disgustedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He was quarrying under the other fellow for the shell, so they can't have many or he would have brought out a fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said my mentor hastily," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jackie, my lad, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not, said Jack Jaikes grumpily--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, never mind--that job's done, said the Chief soothingly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, come along then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will give you what help I can by sending men from the north wall and that next the river. I don't expect any assault there. But I cannot weaken the defence along the side of the Château orchard. That is where we are weakest, and where I must go myself. For they are sharp enoug...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now mind, you fellows, said Jack Jaikes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jehoshaphat, they are flanking us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Down there by the Château doesn't matter, he said, looking that way long and earnestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dennis Deventer is there--with MacIntyre and the whole Clydebank gang--little to fear there. Listen, young fellow, how the machine guns are barking-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lie down, you sweeps! he called to us." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Flat--not a head up." }, { "from": "human", "value": "GO!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Again! shouted Jack Jaikes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep down that head," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sweep the wall and fire low! was the next order." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mind, Donald Iverach and the boys are on top. We must not shoot them, but we _must_ help those ladders down. It is a pity we dare not run out the four-inch--only we could never get her ba...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hell upside down!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cleaned the beggars out! shouted Jack Jaikes, or at least that is near enough to what he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now then, up you fellows and we will get them back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You gave us a good easement up at the corner, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was sure they would get back on you next. Give me a place. I can hoist a gun better than you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear! shouted Jack Jaikes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will fetch the men. Up with the gun." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great God, what's that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Trêve!--Trêve!--Trêve!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I proclaim a truce in the name of the Internationale!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take them up! yelled Jack Jaikes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Idiot, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put him higher, then, you fool," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't, they are coming at us with the white weapon. Heave him yourself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you wounded?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, that's Allerdyce! he answered, with ghastly brevity, but nevertheless the thing somehow nerved me. We all might be even as Allerdyce, but in the meantime we must stop that ugly black rush--the charge" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now then, one volley, said Jack Jaikes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glory, the tucker's out of them! cried Jack Jaikes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand clear, there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To right and left, and fire as they run. Now then----!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Re-r-r-r-rach-rach-rach!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Allerdyce! Allerdyce!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come back and fecht! he yelled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come back and fecht for the sowl o' Allerdyce! On'y ten o' ye. I tell ye I'll slay ye for the sake o' Allerdyce! Ye made what's no human o' him. Come back and I will choke ye wi' my bare hands. We were ch...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never want to see Greenock again! wailed Jack Jaikes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go and fetch your father, Rhoda Polly, said I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "May God grant he can come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we shall pull him through, but so long as we have that young lady --he pointed at Alida, who was exhausting herself in a long outburst of Oriental sorrow--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear we can do nothing radical." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, but you see I can't leave all these--where's your doctor?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I know him, Vallier, a very decent fellow for an _interne_. He'll do. Well, off with you. I will give you a note for him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "W...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What guns, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Allerdyce's, Brown's, and your own! said Dennis firmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Take command. Forward with them into the breach," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold yourself ready there, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It will not take ten poor minutes, pleaded Rhoda Polly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will see that they get safe back. Let me, Dennis!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Have it your own way then, but be quick--don't forget I am risking the whole defenc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get him away, he commanded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! A dead man?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have my Italians, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Hugh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could tell him to do all that, and I am sure that I could direct the fighting better. I have been a lot with my father and I have kept my eyes open." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has seen us sitting sleeping on the roof, hand in hand, when the sunlight was two hours old, and you will see that neither you nor I will ever get farther than we are at present under the consulship of Jack Jaikes. He considers us in the light of a good joke, all because of t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chief, said I," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Two daughters--I have three!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I do not include Rhoda Polly, I answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rushed? he said sharply." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might not be there, Mr. Deventer--you might be lying as I saw Allerdyce along the top of your gun. So might I--so might anyone you dared delegate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God forgive you--you put water into my veins. How could any man 'delegate' such a thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why should we not take the best of life we can? It may not be for long, he said, referring to this period." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You people of the Château had taken toll of our numbers. Well, I do not complain. There was the more left for the rest. We had ap...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The ground, as he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dowse him wi' a bucket o' water, and let him gang his ways. I like not the look o' the speldron. He is like the Brownie that my Uncle Jock yince saw on the Lang Hill o' Lowden--a fearsome taed it was, juist like this Eytalian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold your...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tatter of Scarlet, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Old Reds of the Midi," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, my good Matteo, he would say, as he came in with that nonchalant ease in his gait and that devilish glitter in his eye which made Matteo at once envy and adore him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Matteo of the left hand, how goes the other to-day? Have you had dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Black Band or the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gang of Cartouche." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A. THIERS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We will let these fools thresh away at the walls of the _lycée_. I know a professor there who has a good knowledge of defence. That business will keep them busy all night. Renard is the man's name. He was in the Algerian wars--grand high priest he was, or something like that. Bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said the Expropriator-in-Chief," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can you trust him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, with a pistol at his ear and a hand on his arm. Otherwise I should as soon think of trusting him as a Protestant pastor!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are as good as you will get, said Chardon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BONG--BONG--BONG!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What fools! said Chanot, cursing his late companions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have begun firing too soon! And the light? Can they have already set fire to the chapel?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "St. André to be attacked to-night. Go up an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can I do for you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us in for God's sake, they are killing everyone up at the _lycée_. We have escaped--my friends and I, _pions_, and the others, three honest fellows from the gardens, whom we picked up on our way." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seat yourselves, gentlemen, a welcome to you, said the host." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are well out of the trouble and safe with me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I do not disturb my servants for what I can do myself, he added smilingly," } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We thank you, ladies, for your presence, he said, with his pleasantest manner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We had not expected so great an honour." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is bread on the sideboard, cut it for these gentlemen!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kill, kill--if you do not, I shall!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, take him away," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall take the _donzella_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Save me--save me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To the door--Leduc, and you, Violet, he ordered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear this gentleman is ill. He is from Italy and troubled with fever. He will be better outside. I will conduct him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shut the door and let no one pass, he added to Chardon, in a rapid whisper," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Leduc, and you, Violet, take up this carrion and carry him near enough to the fighting up yonder to be clear of all connection with this house. There is no treasure here. He deceived us, like the Italian he was. But I shall not deceive you." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The gentleman has perfectly recovered, he announced with sympathetic gravity in answer to Alida's questions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Matteo of Arquà has long been subject to such attacks, but the best medical advice agrees that they have lost force of late, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you here, bandit and traitor? he demanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But for you there would have been peace in Aramon, the best of governments, and--you broke it all up. Touch not the hand of the daughter of kings! There is blood upon your own, sower of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My father is wandering in his mind, she said, letting the light of her young eyes dwell upon his." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He had a bullet which grazed the brain----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fired that bullet," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-bye, dear lady--I have met you too late. Yet do not think quite unkindly of me, of whom much evil will be spoken." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chardon, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I leave you here on guard. I commit these ladies to yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a warrant for the instant arrest of the chief of the Aramon insurrection. I am advised that he lives here. His name is Keller, Charles Keller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am the chief of the Aramon insurrection, said Chanot calmly," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There against the wall--we must cross the river--there is no time to lose. Form a firing party." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said Chanot coolly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Allerdyce--Allerdyce!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you anything to say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only good-bye!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Anything to leave?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only life!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then you are ready?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May 25th, 1871. Upon the hill called St. André, immediately above the Rhône, I caused to be executed one Charles Keller, upon his own confession, as being the chief of the revolt in Aramon-les-Ateliers." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no!" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am Dennis Deventer's daughter, she said, English, smiling, and frank," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you cross the river you must go up and see my father. Your colonel is rather a pet of his!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall immediately do myself the honour of waiting on your father!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TATTER OF SCARLET" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have always known it would be so--don't they look silly?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brown was attending to the electric lamp and barbed-wire obstacles while I was doing the drill sergeant, and by ten we had the business in pretty fair shape. I set the posts as you told me, sir, or as near as possible. For, of course, having been a pupil, the old place was like ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hadn't time, retorted Rhoda Polly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come out on the terrace, Rhoda Polly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose there is really nothing to say, I said, answering her glance." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This is not proper love-making, but we simply can't do without one another, can we, Rhoda Polly? So it has just got to be." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Silly, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will put you out of any remorse you may feel for any of your misdeeds. Jeanne is to be married to young Emile Bert, the fruit-grower of Les Cabannes. She is at last going to reward his constancy--as I am yours!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tatter of Scarlet." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "... the woodman, the _ramoneur_ or sweep,... changed" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guguss to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gugusse ... garlic-smelling 'Gugusse' who ... changed" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had stepped from his own room far up the corridor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mistress Brent" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good morning!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good morning!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beautiful day!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lovely!" } ]