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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Firm and all" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "they were entitled each of them to vote for the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Firm" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well run, puppies!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The beast! whispered Dick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's going to do something." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh! said Georgie," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, said Freckleton, when the voting was over," }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, if you don't mind, said the Hermit, passing it back," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, said the obliging scrutineer." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen,--Unaccustomed as I am to public speaking, I beg to read you the list of the S...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Richardson." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pauncefote." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Smith." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Firm" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heathcote." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! about time, too, thought Dick, as he raised his voice in a defiant cheer. He'd like a quiet five minutes with the fellows...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the sixth place, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Say you retire!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you do anything of the sort, shouted Gosse;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course he will," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Very close, they heard Freckleton say, as soon as order was restored." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you satisfied, Calverly?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right, he said, meekly, cowed by the mighty triumph of the" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps, said Pledge," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Name! Sneak! Cad! Name!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You want the names, do you? You think, perhaps, I do not dare to give them. I do dare, though I stand here single-handed. The three boys are Rich...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the Captain thinks I'm afraid to do what he asks, he's mistaken. I don't believe in hole-and-corner business. And as he has challenged me to accuse his three young friends in public and bring my witness, I will do both." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What witness?...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The young gentleman, proceeded Pledge," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Order! cried Mansfield, sternly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go on, Pledge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I heard of the theft from the--from Webster immediately after it occurred, and for the last fortnight have been watching the culprits--" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr Webster, said Mansfield," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pledge, here, has just been publicly accusing three boys of theft. He says they have robbed you, and we want you to hear his statement and tell us if it is true. Please repeat what you have to say, Pledge, in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, sorry to bring you up, Mr Webster, just at your busy time, but I was telling my friends here about that little affair of the pencil-case, you know, which was stolen from you; and as they don't seem inclined to believe me, I thought the best thing would be for you to tell the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, you fellows, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You never told me that, snarled Pledge." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've been fooling me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You never asked me. Mr Richardson knew; he was in t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can tell him that, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, we did, shouted the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he thought, continued Dick, warming up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does Pledge want to ask any more questions?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, thank you; I'm not quite clever enough for them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you are right, said the Captain, drily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think in ordinary decency you ought to treat everybody fairly on a day like this. It will do you no harm, and it will be more worthy of Templeton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, said Pledge," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Our three young friends have told you a pretty story, which has highly amused you. It amused me too. They told you I had a spite against them. I must say it's the first I've heard of it. As a rule Sixth-form fellows don't waste much time in plotting against boys in the Third; bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did think we might be spared quite such a ridiculous speech as that to which we have just listened. However, I have nothing to say about its comic side. What I want to say is this. It is perfectly true Mansfield had a spite against Pledge. So had I; _so_ had Cresswell. So had ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think we've all had enough of this, you fellows. There's the Chapel bell. This meeting is over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Firm," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jolly brickish of old Cress, giving us his study, isn't it, you chaps?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rather! said Georgie." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think we might almost leave him out something." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It wasn't a pleasant affair at all, said Cresswell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course we shall have Pledge still, said Freckleton," }, { "from": "human", "value": "He never got hold of me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was an ass to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Main-top" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first man that steps clear of this bridge is likely to get shot," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When once these words escaped his lips, the subject was never renewed. Nothing appeared to move him: the abjurations of those employed in the other lighters, barges, vessels, and boats of every description, who were contending with us for the extra foot of water, as we drifted u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't write nor read, Jacob, he would say;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I could; but look, boy, I means this mark for three quarters of a bushel. Mind you recollects it when I axes you, or I'll be blowed if I don't wallop you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was that? exclaimed my father, taking his pipe out of his mouth, and listening;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shouldn't wonder if that wasn't Joe." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, what can have become of Joe? cried my mother, with maternal alarm in her countenance, appealing to my father, as she hastened back to the cabin. My father spoke not, but taking the pipe out of his mouth, dropped the bowl of it in a perpendicular direction till it landed sof...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gin wasn't good for little boys." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Remember, Jacob, we must be at the wharf early tomorrow morning, so keep alive," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother! but there was no answer. The lamp fixed against the after bulk-head, with a glass before it, was still alight, and I could see plainly to every corner of the cabin. Nothing was burning--not even the curtains to my mother's bed appeared to be singed. I was astonished--bre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mind, Jacob, we must be up at the wharf early to-morrow morning." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How strange and how horrible! said the lady to her husband;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I cannot understand it even now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nor can I; but still it is true, from what Johnson the clerk has witnessed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you any friends, my poor boy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! no relations onshore?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never was on shore before in my life." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "very different on shore from what it was on the river, where taking care of you means getting out of your way, and giving you a wide berth; and I found the shore reading much more agreeable. Cook did take care of me; she was a kind-hearted, fat woman who melted at a tale of woe,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As this, in other phraseology, implies that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God only knows how she died, it was agreed to _nemine contradicente_, and gave universal satisfaction. But the extraordinary circumstance was spread everywhere, with all due amplifications, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you want 'em for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish to keep them, and take great care of them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, replied I, after a little consideration," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You must ask papa," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Jacob, you must eat the soup with the spoon, said little Sarah, laughing;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take it coolly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The poor boy has scalded his mouth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no use crying, replied I, blubbering with all my might;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Better that you had not been helped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The poor boy h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the boy eat it after his own fashion, my dear--only be quick, Jacob, for we are waiting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I see no good losing so much of it, taking it in tale, observed I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I laid down my spoon, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I won't laugh at you any more, said she;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No more I will, replied I, cheering up. She remained standing by me, and I felt grateful." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The first time I get a piece of wood, whispered I," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dominie is in his dreams, and talks in his sleep." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob Faithful, draw near," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob Faithful, canst thou read?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I can't, replied I;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I could." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A well-disposed answer, Jacob; thy wishes shall be gratified. Knowest thou ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that, boy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's half-a-bushel;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Half-a-bushel! You're more than half a fool. That's the letter _A_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No; it's half-a-bushel; father told me ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can do nothing with this boy, sir, said he, red as fire;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dost thou, in thine ignorance, pretend to teach when thou comest here to learn, Jacob Faithful?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Father always told me that that thin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob Faithful, why still porest thou over thy book--didst thou not understand that the hours of recreation had arrived? Why risest thou not upon thy feet like the others?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And where are thy shoes, Jacob?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Barnaby Bracegirdle, said the Dominie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, said Barnaby, holding one fist to my face, while, with the other open hand he rubbed behind," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's no use crying, said I, soothingly: for I had not wished him to be flogged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cinderella, where's your glass slippers?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come out, you water-rat, cried Barnaby," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come out and fight him, or else you're a coward!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He has had beating...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better luck next time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said my second;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've settled him," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's done can't be helped, replied I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he dead?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's all this...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, says she," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It seemed strange, observed he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "said he to the other boys," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob Faithful, how is this? thine head is good yet wilt thou refuse learning. Tell me now, what does _c-a-t_ spell?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, Jacob, it spells _cat_; take care of thy head on the next reply. Understand me, head is not understood. Jacob, thy...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The boy hath talent, replied the Dominie;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear that thou hast the talent for drawing, Jacob," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never had in my life, sir," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, Jacob; I like modes...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob Faithful, draw near, said he, in a tone which proved that the affair was serious. I drew near, wondering." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou hast been accused by Mr Knapps of caricaturing, and holding up to the ridicule of the school, me--thy master. Upon any ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "From whom didst thou obtain this, Mr Knapps?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From Barnaby Bracegirdle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was but this moment thou didst state that thou hadst received none from Barnaby Bracegirdle. Thou hast contradicted t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For thee, thou base, degraded, empty-headed, and venomous little abortion of a man, I have no words to signify my contempt. By the governors of this charity I leave thy conduct to be judged; but until they meet, thou shalt not pollute and contaminate the air of this school by th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As the tower which looketh towards Damascus." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Earth, lay light upon the lighter-boy--the lotus, the water-lily, that hath been cast on shore to die. Hadst thou lived, Jacob, I would have taught thee the Humanities; we would have conferred pleasantly together. I would have poured out my learning to thee, my Absalom, my son!"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should not have known you, Jacob; you have grown quite a man," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob, this is Marables, who has charge of the Polly barge, said Mr Drummond, who had sent for me into his office, a few days after my arrival at his house." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marables, continued my protector, addressing the man," }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come and see the craft, boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This will be your berth, said Marables, pointing to the cuddy-hatch forward;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you another man, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I have, Jacob, replied he; and then muttering to himself," }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the lad who is bound to the barge, said Marables." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jacob, this is Fleming." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So, younker, said Fleming, after casting an inquiring eye upon me," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "cried the old man, who was sitting in his study." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Verily, Jacob, thou art come in good time. I am at leisure, and will give thee a lesson. Sit down, my child." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take it coolly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How! exclaimed Marables;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have shot it without help many and many a time, replied I," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well! replied Fleming, with astonishment;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had no idea that h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anchor clear! said I." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, we have a good hour more before we meet the flood." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know that, Jacob, as well as you do; but we shall not go farther to-night. Be smart, and see all clear." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Jacob, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Jacob, as I have honestly told you the secret, I hope you won't ruin me by saying a word to Mr Drummond." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob, said he," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, said he to Marables, as he came to the cabin-door, and tried to open it;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We've no time to lose--we must get up the sacks and sink everything. Two of them have 'peached, and the fence will be discovered." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will not live to tell the tale, added Fleming, with a firm voice, as he put another match into the bottle, and then relighted the lamp." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said Fleming, fiercely;" }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Folly barge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The very one we are searching for. Where about is she, my lad?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "How came you overboard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was thrown overboard, replied I," }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's all this? cried Fleming, boldly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you river pirates, come to plunder us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not exactly, replied the officer;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With all my heart, if you prove...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Fleming, sarcastically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait a little, said the officer;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You see them," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but you have a boy; where is he?" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My fine, honest boy! I thank God--I thank God! All that he has said is true, sir. You will find the goods sunk astern, and the buoy-rope to them fastened to the lower pintle of the rudder. Jacob, thank God, you are safe! I little thought to see you again. There, sir, continued h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He's a young hand for such work, cried one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's gallows marked in his face," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Jacob Faithful? My lad, do you know the nature of an oath?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recollect, said the magistrate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not intend that you should, replied Marables." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I only want to ease my conscience, not to try for my pardon." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must detain you, my lad, observed one of the magistrates," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Proh! Deus! exclaimed the Dominie, when I had finished my story." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What an escape! How narrowly, as Propertius hath it femininely, `_Eripitur nobis jumpridem carus puer_.' Well was it that thou hadst learnt to swim--verily thou must have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or, as some more learned wag had christened him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No glory I covet, no riches I want, Ambition is nothing to me. But one thing I beg of kind Heaven to grant--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Silence, you sea-cook! how dare you shove in your penny whistle! How's tide, Tom?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jacob, have you finished your breakfast? Here, take the helm, while I and Tom put the craft a little into apple-pie order." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For grog is our larboard and starboard, Our main-mast, our mizzen, our log, On shore, or at sea, or when harbour'd, The mariner's compass is grog." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But it arn't a compass to steer steady by, father," }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Jacob, how the parish of Battersea came into the possession of those fields?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I do not." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, I'll tell you; it was because the Battersea people were more humane and cha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, boy, haul up the skiff and paddle on shore with the bundle; ask the old woman how she is, and tell her I'm hearty. Tom was in the boat in a moment, and pulling lustily for the shore." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That makes me recollect when I returned to my mo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "However, she got used to it at last, as the woman said when she skinned the ells. Tom's a good boy, Jacob, but not steady, as they say you are. His mother spoils him, and I can't bear to be cross to him neither; for his heart's in the right place, after all. There's the old woma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, Tom! cried his mother, shaking her fist at him, as he stooped down his head;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tom, Tom! cried his father, shaking his fist also;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's enough, Tom!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's too much, you rascal!" } ]