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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We haven't got the flour," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Hetty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Still, it can be bought at the settlement, and no doubt you could find the pack-horses in the bush. You could go down and get it while Tom holds the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Sewell! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't mean it conventionally, this--is--a pleasure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have just come in. I wonder if I could ask--Mrs. Ingleby, isn't it--for a little supper?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Leger! she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course, you shall have supper. Put on two more trout and fill the kettle, Tom." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did you come here for?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wouldn't the fame of the Green River mines be excuse enough?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think it would. People who talk as yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe that trail is scarcely practicable to a white man. Only one or two have ever tried it," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is so much the better. I am, however, certainly going in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They have been sending a good m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Miss Coulthurst, daughter of the Gold Commissioner." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There is no reason why a prospector shouldn't look at a queen, and she has a striking face. Of course, one would hardly call i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they do not turn up in another minute I will walk across to the outpost with you, said the latter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The time is up." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess they'll come, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I were you I'd promise them something if it's only to humour them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A concession, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Slavin said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess I hear them, and I'll stay right where I am. They can't see me in the shadow, and if they knew I was hanging round it might worry them. You don't want to hang out a red rag when you have a difference of opinio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have come for an answer to the request we handed you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are a free miner? What is the name on your certificate?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sewell, said the other." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have, as I promised, glanced at what you are pleased to term your request, though it bears a somewhat unfortunate resemblance to a demand." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're not going to worry 'bout what...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the miner grimly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only that I shall send your petition to the proper quarter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, said Sewell drily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will receive attention when...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fancied you understood that already, said Eshelby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If those whose business it is think fit to modify the regulations you complain of I will let you know. Unless that happens ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, said Sewell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A little firmness is usually effective in a case of this kind, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, of course, send on the petition, but as I scarcely suppose it will be referred to again we can consider the affair as closed." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The question, Hobson, said another man," }, { "from": "human", "value": "By kicking, said Hobson drily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You want to start in hard, and stay right there with it." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Chicago Irishmen stayed right where they were, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know what they did with the money, but they bought no rifles--they weren't blame fools. The moral is that what an Irishman looks at twice is too big a thing for us. No,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Slavin and the troopers! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We don't want him to know who's here. Get out through the roof, boys. Put the lamp out." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You and I have got to see it out. I guess he's sure of us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are only two men here, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Light that lamp, said the other man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I feel tolerably certain there were considerably more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess it's broke," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I might have thought of that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You and Rignauld will start down the trail and stop any man you come across, though I guess they're back in their tents or in the bush by now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It wouldn't be wise to push your luck too hard by coming back," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop where you are until I get by. There's scarcely room for both of us," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why didn't you pull up behind there, packer?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You couldn't have got past, Captain Esmond, said Ingleby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was well into the narrow stretch when I called to you." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You should have foreseen that when I warned you to stop," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you be good enough to get out of my way?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to wait here. Both the beasts and I are badly played out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess if I got down and edged out to the off side you might pass me. The trail's a little wider here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thanks!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somebody's going to m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got it, he said, pointing to the flour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is it to go? I'll give you a hand to heave it down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go right in. I'll manage the bags myself, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put them on this minute; they're warm and dry. There's a light in the new shed, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then come back here. You're not to go outside again." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sit down, and don't worry about trying to talk,"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You make this shanty feel like home--though it is a very long while since I had one," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been making improvements since you left, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It really doesn't need very much to make a plac...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you have struck nothing on the claim?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Leger." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only a trace of colour, but I don't want to talk of that to-night. You can tell us about your journey when you have had supper....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Splendid!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You appear almost as angry with the man as Walter was," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, replied Hetty sharply," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fancy I should have endeavoured to let him scrape by if I had been there, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Crowding a police officer of that kind into a river may be soothing to one's ruffled temper, but I can't help concluding that it's likely to turn out e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I struck a fir that was full of resin knots when I was chopping props, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It kind of struck me Miss Leger would have some use for them at the bakery, and I just took one or two along." }, { "from": "human", "value": "O...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boys can get away with another twenty loaves this week, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jake figured you'd have seven or eight more of them from the gully workings coming in. They told him they'd no use for flapjacks or grindstones when they could get bre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I ran up against Wolverine Gordon yesterday, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He wants more salt in his bread. Says that sweet dough's ruining his digestion, and if you can't fix it to suit him he'll do his own baking. I guess I'd let the old insect have his s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hall Sewell! He's coming back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. Sewell is across the divide ever so far away," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the big prospector," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've come back--warned off by the police as usual, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the language of the country, nobody seems to have any use for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After a long journey through the bush this is exceptionally nice, even though it is a little rough on Miss Leger, said Sewell, with a quiet smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her cares are increasing, for another of her boys has come home a trifle the worse for we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you came in one would have fancied it was quite a long while since you were a boy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now and then I feel it is. Men who lead the life I do grow old rapidly, you see. We are, in fact, nurtured on the storm, but that is really no reaso...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've ever so much on hand, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom couldn't hit a deer to save his life, and my boys are expected to do what they're told. You will take him, Mr. Sewell, and if you let him com...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You like that man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course! said Hetty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I hadn't I wouldn't have had him here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You needn't ask Walter. There are two people he believes in befo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No way of getting across there, said Sewell as he flung himself down at the foot of a cedar." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a little unfortunate, too, because from what Tomlinson said it's a good bear country on the opposite side. One deer won't last very long e...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you hear anything?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A bear! exclaimed Sewell." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The small black kind go straight at everything which lies between them and their covert. I fancy that one's partly crippled, too. It's your shot. If he breaks cover you might stop him for the man he belongs to....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who the devil are you trying to shoot?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hold on, sir. There's a big gully right in front of you," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gone over! he said hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, the top part's not quite so horribly steep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think this thing is coming out," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you hold on for a minute or two, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I might manage one--not more," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That should do," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold fast, and we'll pull you up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reach your left hand back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think my rifle went over, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where's the bear?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Of course! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very much obliged, I'm sure. I mean it. But--where is--the bear?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, sir, and really don't think an attempt to find out would be advisable," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We couldn't very well stay here all night--and I've hurt my knee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid we couldn't get you up without a rope." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am quite satisfied that you couldn't, and don't propose to let you try, s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Major Coulthurst knows whom he is to have the pleasure of entertaining." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I felt it my duty to inform him; but my name did not seem to convey very much to him. In fact, I do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you told him who you really were?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you heard me mention it, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are ready, Ingleby?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was once in a native Indian state, and those pieces are a little memento, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They played the game rather well there, and I've had a liking for it ever since." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid I should make a very indifferent opponent, sir, but that is your affair," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Sewell plays chess very well, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In fact, he made what seemed to me a really brilliant opening." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of the men who do everything that is worth while well, said Ingleby." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The knight, said Ingleby gravely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I scarcely think you would ever, as they say in this country, go back on a friend. My father, as he said, is fond of the game, but that d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I scarcely think that anybody who knows how we live would blame him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you have found the gold?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little, said Ingleby," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But there are only two of you, and it will take you ever so long," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, we will get it done," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you expect the effort will be warranted?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Men get rich placer mining now and then, and it might happen to me, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In fact, I almost think from what one or two of the old prospectors t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Check! I fancied at one time the game was in your hands, but there's seldom much use in anticipating when there are points you can't foresee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid Major Coulthurst is right. One can only wait," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have just come across for a few minutes, and will not disturb you, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose you have any objections to my looking over your register?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Coulthurst." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is, he said quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At excellent prices! Still, she probably deserves all she gains. It would cost a good deal to bring flour up. How did she get it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are you going to turn baker, too?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The man, said Coulthurst," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fancied he did, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Were you equally pleased with his companion?" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have not been near us for awhile," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been busy, though I am not sure that is a very good excuse, said Ingleby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Besides, one feels a little diffident--in the circumstances--about presu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The view is really worth even your attention," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is. In fact, I scarcely think I could improve on it; but it was not the view that kept me here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, she asked, with quiet contempt," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we need not go into that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps I did wrong, but it would only lead us away from the topic I want to talk about. Has it occurred to you that unless you put a stop to his presumption that miner fellow might get ideas i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't that a trifle vague? What ideas do you mean?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should prefer not to be more definite--and I'm not sure that it is necessary, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Still, one might, perhaps, venture to warn you that the miners and my troopers, who, of course, have eyes, have already found an entertaining topic...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose I deserve it, and I am in your hands, but you can be angry with me afterwards if you will let me speak. We are old friends, and I feel that implies a certain responsibility. There is nobody else in this country except the major who would concern himself about you, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would have been less preposterous had he been a man with any education or nicety of feeling; but you have even to take his antecedents on trust, and a good many of the men here have a somewhat astonishing history." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard enough...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I scarcely think that is quite what one would have expected from you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little charity is always advisable--and you may find it indispensable." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come up, Walter. I'm getting cold," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then sit by the fire!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come up! said Leger sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you must have the truth, I've borne about as much as you co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bed rock or a boulder! he said hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Send the bucket down." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heave!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we try it now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Leger, a trifle hoarsely." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Put in the rest." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get it done!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pour it out! he said hoarsely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't stand much more of this." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I almost think--we've struck it rich!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There will be no need for any more baking--at this rate. We'll go home and tell Hetty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's asleep," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she is, said Leger, with a curious smile." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! she said with a little gasp," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is the first of it--and it's yours, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it hadn't been for you we should never have held the mine. One third of it all belongs to you." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where's Tom?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think he's asleep, said Hetty." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's no wonder. Aren't you very tired, Walter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I really believe I am, though I scarcely felt it until ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you have suggested applies as much to me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was wondering what you would say--and I suppose it does. Still, nobody seems to mind the little difference so much in a man when he has plenty of money. You are going to marry Miss Coulth...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a very long while since I got up so late, and I don't quite know how I came to be lying here, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose I fell asleep beside the fire, but in that case it's a little difficult to understand how I could have got the blanket...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wonder if you know that your friend Ingleby has struck gold?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't, said Coulthurst, who did not appear to notice his sardonic tone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm pleased to hear it." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm not quite sure how far my authority goes until I look it up, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have rather a liking for Ingleby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not exactly my business, but one would fancy that you couldn't very well di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess you've struck it rich!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I almost think we have. Feel that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You kept the thing kind of quiet. Told nobody yet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only one of the policemen. We were too busy to spend a good deal of the day coming over to let the boys know, though Ingleby was thinking of going across to-night. You have a good claim...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Major Coulthurst would be glad if you and Leger could find it convenient to see him now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does he want?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know, said the trooper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm tell...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I guess you've got to go. I'm coming along," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Recorder did not mention you. If he'd been anxious for your company he probably would have done so," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've played this game quite a long while, a...