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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my mother that is speaking, Nadezhda explained softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She'll give it him! Yes, SHE will protect me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enough, enough! said the voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only through lack of occupation have you joined the company of the righteous." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whither are you going? You must not listen." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No great achievement is it, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In former days, Natalia Vassilievna, you took away from me my substance, you took my all. Also, let me recount to you how we fell into disagreement." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi! What were you doing just now? Long-legged devil that you are, I have no further use for you--I do not intend to work with you any more. So you can go." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does the noise mean?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What does ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a head that must be made of iron." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good day to you, madame," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And good day to YOU, my friend. Yes, I wish you good day." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great Ravine," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neither of those things suits me, he will say," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No need for hurry, is his customary remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Always, in time, does one win to one's pitch in the marketplace." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never do I take in goods of that kind. Of the truth of what I say, your honour, you have more than once assured yourself in person." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Darika?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has gone to the spring for water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still in pain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes? Well, you can go now." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He thinks that because he is a Town Councillor he is also clever." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; such folk are apt to grow very proud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, all his brains put together wouldn't grease one of my boots!" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ought to have more self-restraint, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is played out, my friend, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see, I have had very much to bear, for there was a time when such hunger used to gnaw at my bel...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you come in and have some tea?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I thank you. In passing, what a thing I have heard about you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do not shout so loud. Of what are you speaking?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Into that Eve's ears be there poured the poison of the asp!... Yet pardon me, Oh God! Yea, pardon me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lodger, would you care to join me in a pot of tea?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you ever read Paradise Lost and Destroyed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only Paradise Regained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The reason why Adam lost Paradise is that he allowed Eve to c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All my life I have been engaged in gaining experience so that now I know most things, and ought to be listened to with attention. Usually folk do so listen to me, but though here and there one may find a living soul, of the rest it may be said: 'In the House of David shall terri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For example, continues the old man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Similarly, the Kapustins, once a powerful family, came at length to dust-became as nothing. It was a family the members of which were ever in favour of change, and devoted to anything that was new. In fact, they went and set up a piano! Well, of them only Valentine is still on h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And the same thing will befall the Osmukhins, he next remarks." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let them be a warning to you never to make friends with Germans, and never to engage in business with them. In Russia any housewife may brew beer; yet our people will not dr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you noticed a shop in Zhitnaia Street kept by an old man named Asiev? Once that man had ten sons. Six of them, however, died in infancy. Of the remainder the eldest, a fine singer, was at once extravagant and a bookworm; wherefore, whilst an officer's servant at Tashkend, h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What in particular ought men to wait for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Someday there will arise a Strange Man who will proclaim to the world the Word to which there never was a beginning. But to which of us is the hour when that Man will arise known? To none of us....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There goes God's fool, would be their remark." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will not be long before he dies and becomes a Saint, and we fall down and worship him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi, Nilushka! Fire! Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God in heaven, what a stupid lad this is!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because it is such sport to do so. As a lad who cannot feel things as other human beings do, he inclines folk to make fun of him." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Christ also had to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our Father in Heaven--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "WHICH ART in Heaven." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, in the Heaven of Heavens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, well! God will understand. He is the friend of all blessed ones." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nilka, the bottle-neck, the neck without a nape to it [Probably the attractiveness of this formula lay rather in the rhyming of the Russian words:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nilka, butilka, bashka bez zatilka!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what about the other one?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why do you always say 'What about the other one'?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, he is too foolish to understand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, though it may seem foolish to say so, he added," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is so, damn him!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then who is he?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A monk." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! Vologonov exclaimed with unexpected animation." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That, th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did you never tell us this before? It was exceedingly negligent of you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I was good-looking then, and desired of all. In those days I had both a good heart and a happy nature." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But the monk may prove to have been an important factor in the question," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, and ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you come into my room, for I have business to transact with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These tales and rumours ought not to be dismissed save with caution. At least ought they to be given the benefit of the doubt. For, though all that he says may SEEM to us unintelligible, there may yet be enshrined therein a meaning, such as--" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say this after me. 'Do not hasten, Oh ye people.' Try if you can say that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want to sing, it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no need for that, though presently you shall sing it. For the moment your task is to le...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whither, Nilushka?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A bukan," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is so. And whither are you going to take it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We shall all of us die. I was going to take and bury it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it is alive; and one does not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, please lay out my bed on the chest, for I think that I am going to lie down for the last time." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some day we shall all of us have to die." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, have mercy upon us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I looked, she related plaintively to some of the suburban residents who came running to her cot," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Next, continued she," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I looked closer still, and then fell on my knees before the body, sobbing: 'Oh my darling, whither art thou fled? Oh God, wherefore hast Thou taken him from me?'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, you! Hold your tongue!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very ready are you to weep, but I should like first to hear the exact circumstances of the lad's death." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did the lad ever complain of ill-health?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, never, Felitzata replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never once did he speak of it--never once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And he had not been beaten?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She DID use to beat him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "At all events she used to lose her temper with him." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friends, we must suppose that God, of His infinite Mercy, has vouchsafed to us here a special visitation, in that, as all of us have perceived, a lad bereft of wit, the same radiant lad whom all of us have known, has here abided in the closest of communion with the Blessed Dispe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all very fine for you to weep, good woman, but the present is not the right moment to sing such verses as those--they were meant, rather, to be sung in a graveyard at the side of a tomb. Well, tell me everything without reserve. Important is it that I should know EVERYTHIN...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How extraordinarily he has grown! Yes, death has indeed enlarged him! Ah, well, so be it! Soon I too shall have to be stretching myself out. Oh that it were now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it that you have been wanting of him? Why is it that you have been trying to teach him strange words?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is it that I have been wanting of him?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To tell the truth, I scarcely know WH...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are mere accesses of impulse which come upon her. And that is only what might be expected. Even as in song or in vice there is no holding her, so remorse, when it has fastened upon such a woman's heart, will know no bounds. I may tell you that on one occasion two young mer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A snake," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it is only a grassworm," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the thing really WAS a grassworm, of course there was no danger." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She was baptised Evdokia, he had said on the occasion referred to." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Usually, however, I call her Dikanka. Pray be friendly with her, but remember, also, that she is not a person with whom to take liberties." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dikanka, pray come and scratch my back. Yes, between the shoulder-blades. O-o-oh, that is it. My word, how strong you are!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Holy Father Nicholas, pray for us unto God! Is the supper kvas ready, Dikanka?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Natasha? Natasha is here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Councillor, the Councillor! Who was it that fell in love with Madame Sukhinikh, and then fell into the pond?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell your fathers! Oh, I'll tell your mothers!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give something for Christ's sake! Give in memory of your kinsfolk there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would seem that folk could find nothing to say of this man beyond that he was a 'servant of God.' Now, how can a servant be worthy of honour at the hand of 'citizens'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Possibly he was an ascetic," }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, that is not the way to do it, presently he continued in the soft, civil voice of one who has a complaint to present." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any such proceeding is merely a mark of barbarism--of a complete lack of observation of men and life." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know that passage?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Young man, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Vice-Governor Khorvat of Tambov is my brother--a younger brother; he being fifty-five, and I sixty-one, si-i-ixty one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Also, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mark you well the word kladbistche. [The word, though customarily used for cemetery, means, primarily, a treasure-house.] Here he nudged me with his elbow--continuing, thereafter, more softly:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In a kladbisiche one might reasonably look ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Probably you are thinking, 'The man with whom I have to deal is old and half-witted.' But no, young fellow; that is not so, for long before YOUR time had I taken the measure of life. Regard these memorials. ARE they memorials? For what do they commemorate as concerns you and mys...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is this cemetery? It is merely a place of show." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, you bald-headed old devil, you! Of course you got your price. Ye-es. Then, fool, you ought to have had a slipper smacked across that Kalmuck snout of yours. Talk of my price, indeed!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To grant the serfs emancipation was a sheer ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my opinion, it is my opinion, that--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't treat me to any of YOUR slop!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of what are you thinking, if I might inquire?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am trying to understand you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You ought not to find that difficult, was his rejoinder as again he doffed his hat, and fanned his face with it." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this, my good sir, is because (partially through the fact that men forget the point, and partially through the fact that that point fails to be understood aright) the WORK done by a man is concealed from our knowledge. For my own part, I have an idea, a scheme--yes, a scheme...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The folk of that town are liars pure and simple, for of set purpose they conceal the particulars of careers that they may depreciate those careers in our eyes, and, while showing us the insignificance of the dead, fill the living with a sense of similar insignificance, since ins...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, continued the Lieutenant," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do, I replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only through the labour of man does the earth attain development. And only by familiarising himself with, and remembering, the past can man obtain support in his work on earth." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your wife or your daughter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My God! My God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the woman in whom, like her uncle, there was nothing that could provoke one to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "E-e-ternal me-e--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eternal memory of what? exclaimed Lieutenant Khorvat with an angry shrug of his shoulders." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suppose, in his day, a man has been the best cucumber-salter or mushroom-pickler i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To the left, I say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, what is to be done, Tanechka?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It would seem that those women have forgotten the precise spot where their relative or friend happens to lie buried." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I say that a graveyard ought to evince the victory of life, the triumph of intellect and of labour, rather than the power of death. However, imagine how things would work out under my scheme. Under it the record of which I have spoken would constitute a history of a town's life ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Men need to be brought closer together, until life shall have become better adjusted. Never forget those who are departed, for anything and everything in the life of a 'servant of God' may prove instructive and of profound significance." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must confess that, that--that the view which I first took of you was rather a tragic one. You see, when I saw a man lying prone on the grass I said to myself: 'H'm! What is that?' Next I saw a young fellow roaming about the cemetery with a frown settled on his face, and his br...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now I must be going." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you done? What have you done?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold your tongue, now! Pray hold your tongue!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Se-em, se-em, shest!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seven, seven, six!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seyem, seyem, a yest-NISHEVO" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "About, there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whither in such a hurry?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To pick a bone with Mitka." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi there, chawbacon!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why have you gone and put yourself THERE? inquired the boatswain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Though there is a notice to tell you NOT to sit there, it is there that you must go and sit! Can't you r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you happen to notice the gait of that little man there in the light pea-jacket and dirty boots?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then see here. Do keep an eye upon him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Half-seas over, HE is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he regularly sneezes flies, eh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At first he was a useful young fellow enough, and clean and spruce; but lately, he has become shabby and dirty, and is going to the dogs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aha! Avoid the ladies, or one is bound to go amiss." }, { "from": "human", "value": "T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi! I shouted to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are you doing there?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How is that your business? Get away with you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For what you have done the sailors will make you pay right enough," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I perceived the mop to have come untied, and to be in danger of falling into the water through the vibration. Upon that I tried to secure it, and failed, for it slipped from my hands as I was doing so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, I remarked in amazement," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, good sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, nothing, except that to ask a question is easy, and to answer it may be difficult." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "True." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I said to him--yes, I said: 'Yasha, you must not, you shall not, do this.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is a little over forty years of age, and (probably) a good woman. Also, she is travelling to visit either her daughter and son-in-law, or her son and daughter-in-law, and therefore is taking with her some presents. Also, there is in her large heart much of the excellent and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you at?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't I given her a good fright, eh?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, let me go! Let go, I say!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you lost your wits?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pray let me go. The truth is that, unable to sleep, I conceived that I would play this woman a trick. Was there any harm in that? See, now. She is still asleep." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I was NOT wrong. He DID of set purpose throw the mop overboard. What a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, holy Mother of God!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tru-us-sha! [The word means ship's hold or stokehole, but here is, probably, equivalent to the English" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heads below!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tavern and--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fool, you must be asleep! The winch, you say? Why, the winch is at the stern, damn you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Off again, thank the Lord!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's time we WERE off!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look here,...