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2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Slavno!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHAT is it that is so splendid?"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cannot you see for yourself? Take that mountain there, and that cleft in the mountain--are they not good to look at?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The fool!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have heard that occasionally they send fever patients hither f... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You too should collect some firewood, for in these parts the nights are dark and chilly."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is the other man? said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and fetch him."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great work is it indeed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With the flesh I'll conquer pain; The spirit shall my lust restrain; All-supreme the soul shall reign; And carnal vices lure in vain."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had just been going to resort to the carpenters, for they would have given us some bread, I suppose? Long is it since I tasted anything."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You suppose that they would have given us bread? echoed the ex-soldier as he unfastened his walle... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a spot on the Sunzha, near here, where those fellows have a colony of their own. Yes, I myself have visited it. True, those fellows are hard enough, but at the same time to speak plainly, NO ONE in these parts has any regard for us since only too many of the sort of Rus... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You seem to me to be a native of the Don country?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I have lived on the Don as well."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And also served in the army?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No. I was an only son."
},
... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sing, thou Holy Angel!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sing ye! Sing glory unto Christ, thou Angel of Holiness! Sing ye! Our singing will we add unto Thine, Thou Angel of Holiness!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Mother of God be blessed for all this goodly world of ours!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They are filled full, and have started bleating. Always folk like them seek to be on the right side of the Almighty."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does that hurt you in any way?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, but I do not respect them--they are les... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had I not better consider WHY it is my lot, and so forth? Why, damn it, the causes are many. For one thing, if one has neighbours who neither live nor see things as oneself does, but are uncongenial, what does one do? One just leaves them, and clears out--more especially if one ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it is always so. We fail to get on with our neighbours, yet lack a charter of our own, so, having no roots to hold us, just fall to wandering, troubling other folk, and earning dislike!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The dislike of whom?"
},
{
"from": "h... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whence did you get that splendid pipe? next asked Vasili as he rolled himself a cigarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely it is a pipe of old German make?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not fear that I stole it, the ex-soldier responded ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You say that she had a squint?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, she had one from childhood upwards--she had one from the day when a fall from a cart caused her to injure her eyes. Yet, if she had not always gone about with one of her eyes shaded, you would never h... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But at last, the ex-soldier continued,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I took heart of grace, and caught her in a barn. Pressing her into a corner, I said: 'Now let it be yes or no. Of, course it shall be as you wish, but remember that I am a soldier with a small stoc... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So now you have heard my story."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, friends, how gracious and how fair is this land of ours! Come, let us salute that land for having deemed us worthy of residence therein!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Kama, O my mother, I love you, and never will desert you!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "May the devil fly away with you, you shameless hussy! Why lie sprawling about the deck like this? See, too, how exposed you are!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you envy me, do you, Yakim Petrov? Never mind, though you have done no great harm. But run no risks; do not look for needless trouble, for your day for sucking sugarplums is past."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These breasts could feed all Russia!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, the young fellow had cried as he interposed to remove her hands."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no need for that, there is no need for that. Let them ALL look."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope that life in the next world will exactly resemble life in this spot, and be just as quiet and peaceful and immune from work. Here one needs but to sit and melt like butter and suffer neither from wrong nor anxiety."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye! If I coul... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi, you, Pavlushka! Get back to work, there!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you want?"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The old wizard and pilferer! Take my word for it that a lump of piety like that has got a pretty store put away somewhere."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The airs that the 'elect' give themselves--the sons of bitches!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It i... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The word 'faults' is, I consider, an insult, began the ex-soldier as he puffed at his pipe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, you don't speak consistently. Only this moment I observed a change in your terms."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To what?... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are not very many churches in these parts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Those devils THERE don't cross themselves, the accursed Serbs!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The trouble with me, he remarked in an undertone,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His head is not quite right, muttered the ex-soldier as he winked in the direction of the retreating figure."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I tell you that straight, for from the first it was clear to me. Otherwise, what could his words in depredation of Russia ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hist!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A vedro [2 3/4 gallons] and a half to the cauldron!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a vedro and a half,"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say no! Fiddlesticks! Not a man is there who could drink more than a vedro of 'blood-and-sweat' in a day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A man could drink a lake of it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, a vedro and a half. That is the proper reckonin... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Before long those fellows will be properly drunk! he said with a frown."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, that vodka of ours! It is a perfect curse! Then to me:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do YOU drink?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on there! I'LL soon put things to rights! Carpenters, just hand over the saw!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where are your lathes? Bring them out! (while noticeable also was a broad-shouldered young fellow in a ragged red shirt who kept thrusting pieces of scan... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aha-a, ra-abble, secta-arians. Yo-ou would have nothing to say to me, you Se-erbs! Yet I say to YOU: Go along, my chickens, for the re-est of us are ti-ired of you, and come to sa-ay so!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What does he want? asked Silantiev quietly as he ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At least I am sorry for such fellows, Vasili continued."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, the very thought of the many, many folk who have come to nothing! The very thought of it! Terrible, terrible!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come over here, you! Don't be backward! Come over here, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "These fellows needed to be taught a lesson!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think that someone has given him a blow,"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace to this gathering!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And we pray your indulgence, was Silantiev's response, though he did not raise his eyes as he spoke."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray be seated."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How cold the water of the rivulet is! It is absolutely icy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you very badly hurt?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No. Merely a man caught me a blow on the bridge of the nose, where the blood flows readily. Yet, as God kn... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somewhere, I think, I have seen you before."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is so. You saw me one evening when I visited your settlement for the mending of a thresher."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes. That is where I DID see you. It was you,... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The land here is easy to work, and makes the people lazy. Who would care to live in such a region? Who would care to come to it? Much rather would I go and earn a living on difficult land."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you STILL think it necessary to struggle aga... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is proud, but that will not last for long."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because I know in advance that--"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh? I, you say? A-a-ah! Then take that!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have seen many proud folk, he continued with a shake of his hatless head and its sparse hairs."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fire may burn up quickly, and continue to burn fiercely, yet, like these embers, become turned to ashes, and so lie smouldering till dawn... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no need for that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why is there not?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because that would cause the fire to be seen, and bring some of those men over here."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is no need f... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are all the rest of our men gone?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, 'shun evil, and good will result.'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, and we likewise wish to depart."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hi, do you answer me! How comes it that you have no respect for Russia? Is not Riazan a part of Russia? What is Russia, then, I should like to know?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A tavern,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say this of such fellows--that... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have killed him!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well? He had no right to insult me. Why should he have said that I was a nuisance to the whole country?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where is the ex-soldier? Who is the watchman here?"
},
{
"from": "g... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have killed him. He is dead."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who was it first struck him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This will lose us our jobs."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the soldier that first started the racket."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, that is true."
},
{
"from": ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can see for yourselves who the man is."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you go to the barraque, and tell them that a man has been done to death."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I should be afraid to go alone."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come! Nothing is there to be afraid of. Go, I tell you."
},
{
"fr... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All the mischief has come of vodka and tobacco, the devil's drugs."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us go, brother, the foreman said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go we with the Holy Spirit."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the sixth murder which I have seen one thing and another commit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One thing and another commit?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What did you say? I did not quite catch it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "W... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look sharp there, and deal! Clubs will be the winners."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! Here is a trump!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Indeed? What luck, damn it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No such thing is there at cards as luck--onl... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, mate?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you mind giving me something to smoke?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Certainly. Here is a cigarette."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christ reward you! Today my wife forgot to bring my tobacco... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Zmiulan, the King of the Ocean, is abroad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHO do you say is abroad?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "King Zmiulan."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One thing it may be best always to disclose, he was saying,"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My wife and one of my children were burnt to death through the falling of an oil lamp. On THAT ought I to keep silence?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? Again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That of which you speak may be taken to have been a punish... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not right, brother, the voice said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But if God be God, He is responsible for all things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not so. Concede to yourself the faculty of reason."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pa... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has all come of a broken heart,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That fellow's one thought is to enlarge and to enlarge upon his tale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and to no purpose does he do so, added the Christ-loving pilgrim as he halted in ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whence, comrade?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "From Voronezh. And you?"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am I than of the note of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Am I really and truly myself?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What may be your name?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A name of absolute simplicity--the name of Alexei Kalinin."
},
{... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My mother was a wet-nurse, he went on to volunteer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alone will I set forth upon the road, with the word"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Aphon or aphonia means loss of speech to the extent of, to the extent of--oh, to WHAT e... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange indeed is it that, that--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That so many names proper to these parts should also be so suggestive. Take, for instance, Mount Nakopioba. Certainly folk hereabouts seem to have... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clearly those people were educated folk. And see too how, as they talked of one thing and another, there cropped up the old and ever-persistent point."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To what point are you referring?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can it ... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I too shall be leaving here tomorrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then let us travel together."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I love you!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hymen, Demon, Igamon, and Zmiulan. Good devils are these, not bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How does Christ get on with them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Christ? He does not enter into the matter."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is H... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The locality is not without its perils, once he remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For hereabouts there lurks malaria. It does so because long ago Maliar of Kostroma banished his evil sister, Fever, to these parts. Probably he was paid to do so, but the exact c... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me more about those devils,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, if you wish. But what exactly am I to tell you about them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All that you may happen to know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, I know EVERYT... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pray continue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And each night, as I lay on the floor (I may mention that never did I climb on to the stove, and to this day I dislike the heat of one), it was her custom to sit with her legs dangling over the edge of the top, and tell m... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In such wise did Christ convert those four evil devils into devils of goodness."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you find that story of mine a good one?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did, for Christ was so good in it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Always and everywhere He is so, Kalinin proudly rejoined."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But do yo... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The One and Only God"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dread God, Oh beneficent God, Oh God who sittest on high, and on a golden throne, and under a gilded canopy, do Thou now punish Satan, lest he overwhelm me in the midst of my sins!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, brother! Come! Let us run on ahead, for thunde... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh Holy One! Oh Holy One! Oh Holy One!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! Look!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here there is room for THREE persons, my companion remarked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Evidently it is a hollow that has been burnt out--though rascals indeed must the burners have been to kindle a fire in a living tree!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U-oh! U-oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, surely it believes the time to be night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "U-oh! U-u-u-oh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have made a mistake, my brother!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I find this place too close for me. Always I have hated confinement."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; despite the rain and cold and everything else, I consider life to be not quite intolerable."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not quite intolerable in what?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not quite intolerable in the fact that at least I am bound to t... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How come you to be travelling the Caucasus?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Merely through the fact that my walking and walking has brought me hither, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For that matter, everyone ends by heading for the Caucasu... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was shepherds that fired the place. See where they dragged in hay and dead leaves! A shepherd's fife hereabouts must be a truly glorious one!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pretty, I thought,"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What does that ditty mean?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a certain composition, he replied presently."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a composition that was composed by a military clerk who afterwards died of consumption. He was my friend hi... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These, mind you, were the words of a man in whom the heart was absolutely single, absolutely dispassionate."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At the time I believed what Lukianov said, but subsequently I came to see that things were not altogether as he had represented--that woman is merely a delusion, and poetry merely fiddle-faddle; and that a man cannot escape his fate, and that, though good in war, boldness is, in... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Continue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then you find the story an interesting one,"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, sure enough, he then and there composed the piece about 'the wondrous Valentina.' What a tender thing it is, and how full of understanding! My God, my God!"
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I crossed myself, and duly took from her the paper, whilst a mist rose, and swam before my eyes, as I did so, and my legs became perfectly numb. What I next did I hardly know, for inwardly I was swooning. Indeed, until Kliachka's arrival the same evening I remained practically i... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rushing away to my room, I poured out a glass of water, and emptied into it the powder; whereupon the water thickened, fizzed, and became topped with foam. Oh, a terrible moment it was!... Then I drank the mixture. Yet no burning sensation ensued, and though I listened to my vit... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is where we ought to have been sitting whilst the rain was coming down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And so say I, I rejoined."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But pray continue your story."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, when you h... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whereafter falling headlong to the floor, I lost consciousness."
}
] |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I took the General's words very seriously, and proceeded to ask myself: 'To what do those words amount? To this: that though I may not care actually to take part in the game, I need not waste my whole existence through a disinclination to learn the best use to which that existen... |
2288 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And, added Kalinin with animation and inflated cheeks and flushed, suppressed enthusiasm,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look how low the sun has sunk!"
}
] |
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