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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, yes, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was making a picture, in a way I have. I was wondering what would happen to us, in our different paths, and trying to see. One of my aunts says it is 'Celtic' to do that. I saw you in a great waste-place, like a des...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I waked up in broad daylight and found you and your suitcase gone, said the girl." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, how guilty I felt! And then to discover that, just as you thought, the cabin _was_ 63, not 65. What became of you?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know what I've been calling you? the girl asked, half ashamed, half shyly friendly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you needn't pity me, he added quickly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm used to the idea now. I shall lose some things by bei...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hadn't thought of staying in Algeria, he answered her at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't suppose I shall stay. But--I don't know. Just now my future's hidden behind a big cloud." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Like mine! cried Sanda DeLisl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I remember now, sir, said the concierge." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There used to be a hotel of that name, close to the old town--the Kasbah; quite a little place, for _commercants_, and people like that. Why, yes, to be sure! But the name has been changed, f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a few minutes I shall know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bureau" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is a man." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Mr. Doran! she exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is Mr. Stanton. Only think, he's staying in this hotel, and we found each other by accident! I came out here and he walked past. He didn't know me--it's such ages since I saw him--till I spoke." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of which he had made much to Miss DeLisle, consisted solely in walking down the Mustapha hill from the garden of the Hotel St. George to the small white-painted post-office, and there sending off two telegrams. One was to Edwin Reeves: the other was the message for which Billie ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is it half-past six already? she asked, in a very little voice, almost like that of a child who had been punished." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad you've come. Will you forgive me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive you for what? Max asked, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You needn't be afraid of shaming me, the girl went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt that you understood everything, so we can talk now, when I've come back a little to myself. I didn't mind your seeing, then, because everything seemed unimportant except--_ju...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then if I have atoned, tell me quickly your news," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The news is, that I haven't any past which belongs to me--and God knows whether I've a future." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then the worst has happened to you?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All mine has come from Sir Knight: stories he's told me and books he's given me. Long ago he talked about the Lost Oasis. I thought of it as a thrilling fairy story. But he believes it may exist, somewhere far, far east, beyond walls of mountains and shifting sand-dunes, between...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La petite Josephine Delatour," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The handsomest, would you call her? disputed a commercial traveller, who also knew the town." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, _that_, no! she is too strange, too bizarre." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you could only be with me and help, as you have helped me all along! she sighed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Though of course you can't. If Sir Knight had come---- But I couldn't easily explain _you_ to my father. At least, not just at present." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The person you're looking for is staying there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's the secretary of the hotel." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So that is it? said Sanda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're giving up everything to this girl. Do you think she will take it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish I were as sure of what I shall do next as I am sure of that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know what you ought to do next, Sanda said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You ought to be what you have been--a soldier." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall always be, at heart, I think, Max confessed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sidi-bel-Abbés!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These, and the lounging Arabs, might have interested strangers to Sidi-bel-Abbés, if there had been nothing better worth attention. But owing to the lateness of the train, it had come in almost simultaneously with another made up of windowless wagons for men, horses or freight, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it you want me to do? And Sanda also had been impressed. He heard her murmur under her breath," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Poor man! What wonderful eyes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mon Dieu!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! who are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am--Corisande, your daughter, she answered in that small, sweet voice of a child with which she had begged Max to pardon her, yesterday. And she too spoke in French." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ma petite, DeLisle said, with a quiver in his voice that echoed up from heartstrings swept by some spirit hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can it be true? You have come--across half the world, to me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, father, yes, i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've done nothing, Monsieur le Colonel, stammered Max." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had to come. I have business with a person at the Hotel Splendide. It is Mademoiselle who is kind to me in saying----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Could he not tak...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you let me tell my father your story, as I have told you his?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do as you think best," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Porte d'Oran," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Arabian Night's Paradise" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hotel Splendide stretching across its dim, yellow front. Inside a big, open doorway, stairs went steeply up, past piles of commercial travellers' show trunks, and an Arab bootblack who clamoured for custom. At t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is, (Sanda said, writing for her father)" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he were interested in the Legion!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur Doran!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will you still offer me your hand, sir, Max asked wistfully, though he smiled," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She has told me, echoed the elder man, shaking the younger's hand with extra warmth." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whenever we wish to do a guest honour, we bring him here, said the colonel." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are not rich, and have nothing better to offer; except, perhaps, our music." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have already heard the music, answ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have thought of a way, Colonel DeLisle!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad. You have only to tell me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Accept me as one of your men. Let me join the Legion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mon Dieu! The L...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have just said to Colonel DeLisle that you would approve of my joining the Legion, Max explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have I told him the truth?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You guessed what I wouldn't let myself say in the train the othe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not home to the aunts! I told you I'd never go back to live with them, and my father wouldn't send me. But there's to be a long march---- Oh, have I said what I oughtn't? Why? Since he _must_ know if he joins? Anyhow, I can't stay here many days longer--I mean, for the present. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No profession," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At present, but--in the past? the lieutenant encouraged him kindly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If you have military experience, you can rise quickly in the Legion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and the waiter of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Magnifique! exclaimed the doctor, when he had pinched and pounded Max, sounded heart and lungs, and squeezed his biceps." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here we have an athlete." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There were only three newcomers, and the arrival of recruits in the barrack square was an everyday spectacle; but something to gaze at was better than nothing at all. Men in fatigue uniform of spotless white, their waists wound round with wide blue sashes, came running up to see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "because of the asphyxiating high collars which had empurpled their faces with a suffusion of blood. Little had he dreamed in committing that fact to memory that one day the name would be applied to him! Thinking thus, he smiled between amusement and bitterness; but the smile die...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By jove! the fellow has made up his mind to desert already! he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why? He hasn't the air of a slacker." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you French? Are you German? Are you from Switzerland--Alsace--Belgium--Italy--England?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How many tongues have you stowed in that fly-trap of yours, my child? inquired a thin, elderly Legionnaire with a long nose and clever, twinkling eyes. No nation but Holland could have produced that face, and it was unnecessary that the speaker should introduce himself as a Dutc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good heavens! Max blurted out aloud; and the Dutchman cackled with laughter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're no Frenchman, boy! he loudly asserted in English." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now we've got at your own jargon. Go away, Mister Pelle, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you don't think I'm pretty, eh?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry if I was rude," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's no way to apologize, said Pelle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't look at me like that. You'll have to learn better manners in the Legion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A cat ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark to the bantam! he exclaimed in French--execrable French, but a proof that he was no newcomer in the Legion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you weren't a newspaper spy, my chicken, I'd let you off for your cheek. But we have heard all about you. Lieutenant de ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It might well be said that a calm always preceded a storm," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beware of his foot, said the voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's English, but he fights French fashion with la savate." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yankee Spy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of which she would have spoken to Max had she not been warned by her father's word and look that the story was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Rose." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Muezzin of Satan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Am I to live in one of those mud hovels?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kubla Khan" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, are you Ourïeda? But you are beautiful as a princess in a fairy story. You are worth coming all this long way to see!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you are as young as I am, and white and gold as the little young moon, and very, very sweet, like honey! cried the girl, in French as good as Sanda's, though with the throaty, thrushlike notes that Spaniards and Arabs put into every language." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Rose." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come up on the roof with me, and I will tell you that thing I have been waiting to tell you, said Ourïeda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Aunt Mabrouka will not follow us there, because she hates going up the narrow stairs with the high steps. Besides, she will perha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you here for, daughter of Christian dogs? You must have some scheme in your head to defeat our hopes and wishes; but if you have, I'll find out what it is, and break it--break you, too, if need be." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can I trust you? Oh, I think ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Knight." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How wonderful it is here!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, it is wonderful; but don't let us talk of it, or even think of it any more, because I have so much to say to you, and Aunt Mabrouka will send to cal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know he has had but one wife, my own mother, Ourïeda said proudly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is considered almost a sin in our religion, yet he could never bring himself to look with love on any woman, after her, nor to give her a rival, even for the sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Two men! Ourïeda echoed, looking shocked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how can there be two?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fancy I said that because you asked me about dreams, she apologized." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The man w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know, now you've been with us even these few days, Ourïeda said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it long since you parted?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We parted more than once, because when our two mothers died, one after another, of the same s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not long after Manöel came to stay in Djazerta, disguised as a wandering beggar of Touggourt, my father told me what was in his mind. I feel sure Aunt Mabrouka suspected from my happier looks that I was hearing from Manöel, for she persuaded my father that I was ill. She shut me...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the former champion of the Legion, and, taking his place in the match with the Marseillais, had kept the championship for the First _Regiment Etrangére_. Since the day more than a week ago when the barrack-yard of the Legion had been the scene of the great fight--officers lookin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I only asked you what was wrong, what made you stop so suddenly?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was that thing the band is playing now, said the Spaniard." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Strange they should have it here already! It is out of the new A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wonder why I tell you this?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I don't wonder. Perhaps you feel it does you good to speak. It's strange music!--stirs one up, somehow--makes one think of things. And I suppose you trust me? You can. But don't go any farther unless ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zephir in the dreaded" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Batt d'Aff," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It isn't too late yet. Maybe, if we brace up, we'll be taken on the big march that they talk of for the first of September. Even then there'll be time." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He has the _cafard_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The day will surely come, dear boy, Grant said--and Max could almost hear his voice speaking--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's glad I'm out of the way, thought Max." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He wants me to be forgotten by every one, and he want...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "America's most beautiful actresses in one Sunday supplement, and among them, of course, was Billie Brookton. No such page would be complete without her! It was a new photograph that Max had never seen. The smiling face, head drooped slightly in order to give Billie's celebrated ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "because of drink. In spite of all, he had stuck to the Legion. There was no other place for him on earth. The Legion was his country now--his only country and his only home. His medals he had asked Max to keep till he" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What incentive have I?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soldier St. George--my soldier!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She'd be sorry if I let go, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jove! I _won't_! I'll fight this down. And if I'm taken on the march----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Four Eyes was somehow invariably the first one to hear everything, good news or bad. Life was not so black after all. There need be no past for a Legionnaire, but there might be a future. None of the men knew for certain when the start was to be made, but it would be soon, and t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want to ask if you have any plans, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But there's one thing I do ask: share with me the money I've got left. You may need it. I shan't. And if you'll take it, that'll be proof that you think as much of me as I do of you." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening, Corporal! I should like to speak with you a minute! DeLisle cried out cheerfully in English. Max's heart gave a bound. Surely never could the word" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Corporal" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My Colonel!" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, my Colonel--Garcia," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I can make no promise, said DeLisle, speaking now more in the tone of an officer with a subordinate, yet showing that he was not vexed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But--I should like you t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I did it before I stopped to think; if I _had_ stopped, I don't know--for you see, in a way, this makes me a traitor to the colonel. I begged him for a favour and he granted it. _Yet you and I understand what your going means._ I've been asking him for your chance to--well, we w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Faites les sacs. En tenue de campagne d'Afrique!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Legion's March" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "near El Gadhari. Approaching Touggourt, the first scene of his life's great love tragedy, he could hardly wait for the letter he hoped for from Sanda. He expected another event, also the pleasure of meeting Richard Stanton, whom he had not seen for years, and who would be, he kn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Prettiest dancing girls of the Sahara, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know what you're talking about! Four Eyes scouted his objections." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Haven't you heard the scandal about this Stanton, the exploring man, who's here--our colonel's old pal?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I've he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything to do with one of them, said Four Eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's the scandal. Seems Stanton's been playing the fool. They say he's half mad, anyhow, about a lot of things--always was, but it is a bit worse since a touch o' the sun he had a yea...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have sent two men to look for you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The colonel wants you. Go to his tent at once." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will he go to the café and see Ahmara with the caid?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have I done anything I oughtn't to have done?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Corporal St. George, I sent for you because you are the only one among my men of whom I can ask the favour I'm going to ask." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A favour--from me to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I am not going to give you any orders, said DeLisle." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would not be fair or right. This is a private matter. I have just received a letter from my daughter with rather bad news. I told you she was staying in the house of one of the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told St. George, said he to such young men of the Tenth as were admitted to the honour of speech with the ex-champion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told St. George to fire first at an Arab's face if he got any fighting. That's the way! The Arab ain't prepared, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At the _douar_! Max repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not twenty miles away, answered Manöel, keeping all feeling out of his voice, as an interpreter should." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "B...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Knight" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Rose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear nurse Embarka would kill Tahar for me if she could get at him, the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Little Rose said one day, calmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That would end my trouble, but she cannot reach him, and there is no one she can t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let the excitement of being a bride bring back thy health, like wine in thy veins, Little Rose," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not exciting to marry my cousin Tahar, Ourïeda sighed rather than protested." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is an ugly man, dreadful for a girl to look upon as her husband." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou makest me feel that thine aunt is r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou seest for thyself that it is no use to plead, whispered Ourïeda when her father had gone, and Leila Mabrouka and her woman, Taous, on the overhanging balcony, were loudly discussing details of the feast." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, at last, is the time t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it you mean?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I said there was a thing I would ask, if the worst came, Ourïeda repeated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I meant one of two things. If thou wilt do either, they are for thee to choose between. But thou wilt think them both terrible, and my only hope is that tho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Agha was grieved and astonished, but, great Arab gentleman that he was, would have cut out his tongue rather than question his guest when no information was volunteered. He asked only if she had been in all ways kindly treated in his house; and when with swimming eyes she an...