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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she cried hoarsely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, quick--to the Inn. I am safe. You have but one chance for your life," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Open, Tom; quick, for God's sake! It's Dan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're here! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No time for explanations, Tom. I went out--fool that I was!--was attacked. They're here in force." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're welcome to keep that up all night, said Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a waste of ammunition. How many are there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know--half-a-dozen at least, I should guess, was Dan's reply." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, for heaven's sake, Tom, he concluded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Watch here! he commanded." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If the door crashes in, shoot, and shoot to kill; then run into the bar and barricade the door between. I've a plan." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dan, Dan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Claire! Is that you? What is it? I am here, above you, on the roof." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, _mon Dieu_! she exclaimed, as she looked up startled, and discerned his form leaning over the eaves," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It matters not what I have been doing, she murmured in reply to his questions," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have but little time to give you my warning. _Ecoute_. Bonhomme and his men are gone only to carry back their dead and wounded, and to bring cutlasses, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know the way?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But so well, she replied, catching her breath." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Would to God that I did not!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! he murmured," }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madame de la Fontaine! Dan! What does this mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know Madame? Dan replied hastily and in evident confusion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "At great risk she has come to warn us--she is our friend, understand.--She has ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But come, said Madame de la Fontaine, touching his arm. Again like the weird genius of this strange night she led the way on down the shadowy hall, and paused only when her hand rested upon the knob of the door into the Oak Parlour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No! no!--not here! she whispered hoarsely, but yet clinging to him with shaking hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is so cold, so dark. I have fear," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is like a tomb," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are come! she whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will come no more, she said in a strained unnatural voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are saved, safe.... I have proved, is it not so?--my honour, my love." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See! she cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Jove, it has! exclaimed Tom, rushing to the other side of the room, and peering out at the shipless sea." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Heigho! that's a relief. Pray God we've seen the last of her. The M...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You love her, Dan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Tom, with all my heart and soul. I staked my honour, my life, on her sincerity. And how she has proved that we were right to trust her! It can't be--she mustn't die--I couldn't bear it!" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't bear to think of it,--of the trouble, the crime, the suffering of which it has been the cause. When our poor lady recovers, she will tell us all we need to know. I dread the Oak Parlour. I would not go into that room for anything in the world. Nor, believe me, Tom, could...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You love me, Dan?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I love you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I believe that you do, she said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall always be thankful that I have won a good man's love. Bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "CLAIRE DE LA FONTAINE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "FRANÇOIS DE BOISDHYVER." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well? said Tom," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you realize, Tom, Dan said, as they stood side by side watching the blazing logs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's get at it, said Tom." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I confess this place gives me the creeps. Have you got my translation of the di...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's that? he cried suddenly. A faint click, as of a spring in action, had sounded sharp in the stillness, but apparently with no other effect." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By Jove! he exclaimed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I believe there is som...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here's the entrance to the secret chamber all right, Dan exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's see where it goes to. He climbed in and started up the winding flight of stairs, Tom close behind him. About half way up the height of the Oak Parlour he came to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a treasure right enough! cried Dan." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But what's this? He turned to the opposite corner where there lay a heap of something covered with a great black cloth. They approached gingerly, and Dan stooped and picked up an edge of the cove...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Carmichaels are very thick with the Leithcourts, I hear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is Fancy?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last we learn the identity of this great research worker, Christianson murmured as he scanned the closely typed sheets. Carlstrom and Eklund waited impatiently, wondering at the peculiar expression that fixed itself on Christianson's face. Fine beads of sweat appeared on the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was bound to happen{original had happn} sometime," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WILL YER HAVE SOUND OYSTERS?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But who will get up and warm the milk-and-water for you?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marry? _Me_ marry--marry a man--a great, awful man!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that it was written. It is not the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(I weigh one hundred and sixty pounds.) I was not driven into it" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coronation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notis. --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Saterday Nite." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Rattles. --Scientific Diagnosis.--A Prescription.--Short and Dr. Dobbs.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pantod of the Heart. --Dismissal of Teazle.--Installation of Dobbs.--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Scyller and Chara_bi_des." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nux Vomica. --Anxious Mothers.--Mary Jane Arabella Swipes.--Sister Abigail.--Ike Turtle, and his Designs.--He calls on Aunt Graves.--She'll go it.--Sister Abigail's Objection.--The Squire's First Love Letter.--The Wedding.--Great Getting-up.--Turtle's Examination.--The Squire ru...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fev-Nag. --Conflicting Theories.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oxergin and Hydergin. --Teazle's Rationale.--The Scourge of the West.--Sile Bates, and his Condition.--Squire Longbow and Jim Buzzard.--Puddleford prostrate.--Various Practitioners.--" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Training Days. --Militia Dignitaries.--Major Boles.--Major General Peabody.--Preparations and Achievements.--Demolition of an Apple Cart.--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shoulder Arms!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "P'ints. --Longbow's Return.--County Court.--Turtle opens his Law" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "P'ints." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sugar Days." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Styleses." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Society. --No Fashion in Clothes, or anything else.--Bull's-Eye and Pinchbeck.--The Great Trade didn't" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come Off." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The houses in Puddleford were very shabby indeed; I am very sorry to be compelled to make that fact public, but they were very shabby. Some were built of logs, and some of boards, and some were never exactly built at all, but came together through a combination of circumstances ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eagle Tavern" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Stub Bulliphant, as he was called, was, and had been for years, landlord of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Eagle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Burr-oak Opening," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you are the person, said Venison Styles,--for such I afterwards learned was the name he went by in the neighborhood,--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told him I was." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What on airth does anybody want to till the soil for? replied Styles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What does the soil want _tilling_ for? Warn't the airth made right in the first place? The woods were filled with beast and bird, warn't they? and the whole face of n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "bid me" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Colonel, as we called him, was a fair specimen of the bankrupt class. He was one of those unfortunate beings who was well enough started in the world; but after having been tossed and buffeted around by his own extravagance, he was finally driven into the forest. He was educated...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Stub" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "as he called it, with a little" }, { "from": "human", "value": "so as to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "_Mrs._" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stub Bulliphant was busy too. _She_ was a perfe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who answers for Charity Beadle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I answer for myself, squeaked out Charity;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hain't got any counsel, 'cause he's on the jury." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On the jury, ha! Your ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We call Sonora Brown!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, you don't, replied the Squire." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This court is adjourned for fifteen minutes; all who need refreshment will find it at the bar in the next room; but don't bring it in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May it please your honor, said Ike, rising," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm with you on that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Silence! put that man out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the name of the people of the State of ----, I, Jonathan Longbow, Justice of the Peace, duly elected and qualified, do command you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and who" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She didn't know" }, { "from": "human", "value": "After running on with a long preliminary about herself, growing warmer and warmer, the old lady came to the case under much excitement. She said" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, now, that's nice, she continued." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Warn't I sworn, or was't you? and to tell the truth, too, and the _whole_ truth. I warn't sworn to answer your questions. Why, maybe, you don't know, Mr. Pettifogger, that there are folks in state'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on! hold on! you _old reprobate_! now I've got you! now you are mine! exclaimed he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are up to the limit of the law! You cannot inflict only ten dollars in fines in any one case! Now stand and take it!" }, { "from": "hum...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "another, that the last time he saw him" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "another, that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "another asked the Squire" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Squire, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Done," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Know Filkins and Beadle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Know 'em? thunder, yes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How long?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ever sin' the year one." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ever heard Beadle sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That can't be _did_ in this 'ere court! exclaimed Ike;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Laid down in all the law-books of the nineteenth century! exclaimed Sile," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never did." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, con...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After an examination of all the p'ints both for and agin the 'lowing of the set-off, in which the court didn't leave no stone unturned to get at justice, having ransacked some half a dozen books from eend to eend, and noted down everything that anywise bore on the subject; recol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The slander was admitted, he declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As to the c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he called it. It was in the beautiful and inspiring season of Indian summer, a season that lingers long and lovely over the forests of the west. There had been a hard, black frost during the night, and the great red sun rose upon it, shrouded in smoke. We were soon deep in th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at him, exclaimed Venison;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and settled on a tree nearby." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Caw! caw! he screamed again, looking down curiously at the squirrel, as much as to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and she will stay here with us during the winter, and traverse, with her caravan, all day, the desert wastes of snow. Venison says he" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had better sit down, and take our reck'ning." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--that they lived in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He said" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--that they had" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where has he gone?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Gone hum where he lives, answered Venison," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll have 'em! I'll have 'em! he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They can't cheat old Venison. I've hunted the critters mor-nor forty years, and I allers takes 'em when I tries. I'll draw a couple of more...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will they sting?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some folks say they will, he replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If they hate a man they'll follow him a mile; and nobody knows who they hate and who they don't, until they're tried." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the raal stuff, exclaimed Venison;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Venison, when his work was finished, the tree cut, the knot-hole stopped, and the whole turned upside down," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the raal stuff, exclaimed Venison;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Move! I exclaimed," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Long live the Queen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coronation" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as it was called at Puddleford, was filled each week, with one or two hundred rough, hard-featured, unlearned men and women, who had come in from all parts of the country; some for devotional exercises, some for amusement; some to look, and some to be looked at. This congregatio...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Beals" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Graves was a very useful body in her way, and the Puddleford church could not have spared her any more than" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Father Beals. She was an old maid, and had been a member of the log-chapel from its beginning. She was one of those sincere...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Graves was useful in many ways. She kept, in the first place, a kind of spiritual thermometer, that always denoted the range of every member's piety except her own. Every slip of the tongue; every uncharitable remark; every piece of indiscretion, by word or deed; all acts o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Graves always made it her business to" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "after the morals of the preacher." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Men are but men, she used to say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sometimes she would lecture him of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father Beals," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Graves, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sister Abigail were in their accustomed seats. The farmers from the country had" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in fact, it was one of the most stirr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coronation; every voice and instrument letting itself go to its utmost extent. One airy-looking person was pumping out his bass by rising and falling on his toes; another, more solemn, was urging it up by crowding his chin on his breast; another jerked it out by a twist of his h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aunt Graves was entirely out of breath, and remained in a languishing state for several minutes. So they busied themselves the best way they could. They gazed at every person in the house except the preacher, and did everything but worship. I noticed that it was very difficult f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he continued, as he reached out his finger towards Luke, whose daily conversation was a string of oaths;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you feel yourself swelling with a big oath--for every man feels 'em inside before they break out, exclaimed Bigelow,--" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had a dozen complaints before him now, undecided; and he detailed a few of them, as specimens of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't sleep yourselves to death! exclaimed Bigelow;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "with its dozen yoke of cattle, in the first place, goes tearing and groaning through the roots and grubs that lie twisted under it, just as Bigelow tore and groaned through the stupidity and wickedness of his hearers. Then comes the green grass, and wheat, and flowers, as years ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jim Buzzard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jim Buzzard" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jim" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jim" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "sighed the old hunter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before the woods were cut down, and them are dams built, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't they climb it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When the water is very high up, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo, Jim! I screamed, with my mouth to his ear," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let her sink, then, he replied;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Stir around! stir around, Jim! I exclaimed;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That'll bring a bass, pickerel, or something," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pull him out!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't never hurry big fish, replied he;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and accordingly, Venison" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beaver here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, not more'n nor a mile or so up this creek, I've killed piles on 'em. Why, I seed a company on 'em, up there, once, of two or three hundred. They com'd down on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jim" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Notis. --" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Saterday Nite." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saterday nite, mentioned in the above" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I attended at the log-chapel, for the purpose of raising up the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The gathering was large--made up of men and women, and quite a number were in from the co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "looking round at Stub Bulliphant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They warn't the worst kind nother. They'd bring a man all up standin', when nothin' else would. He'd seen a fellow cave right in under one on 'em, and come out as cow'd as a whipt spaniel. About lecteri...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Bird, who was a very impulsive, peak-nosed sort of a woman, and who always wore a red flannel petticoat protruding beyond her dress, and her shoes slip-shod, used to often say," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and that" }, { "from": "human", "value": "...