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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was a charming idea to wear each other's clothes so that each might have something of the other in her heart forever. Already I can see a likeness. But do not hurry to change now. I came to say that for a reason, to be explained later, the caravan cannot start to-day. Our Lit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all over! Ourïeda said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Allah is against me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What will happen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nothing to thee. Do not be afraid." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou mayest go now, said the formidable woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We who love and understand her will restore our Rose with her name's perfume, which has the power of bringing back lost senses. Have no fear for her health, Little Moon. All will be well wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If my father were only here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am responsible to thy father for thy safety, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And though we poor Arabs are behind these modern times in many ways, we would die rather than betray a trust." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Almost surely I shan't be allowed to see Ourïeda again, and if I can't help her any more I might as well beg father to send for me at once," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How thankful I am to see you, dearest! cried Sanda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you think, after what your aunt said, that I should be sent away this morning? Would you have dreamed, even if I stayed, that we should be allowed to meet and talk like this?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Allah has appointed that I marry my cousin Tahar, she said to Sanda," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zakia says I may tell thee our secret, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At first she was afraid, but now she sees that she may trust thee as I do. Didst thou guess there was a secret?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "gp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have put the hair with the text, said Ourïeda." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look, in its place this tiny bottle of white powder. Canst thou guess what it is for?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast guessed, the Agha's daughter said in a very li...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go, thou! This has nothing to do with thee," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Agha must have ordered that new tent to be set up for Tahar," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My friend has sent thee to escort his daughter to Sidi-bel-Abbés, Ben Râana said thoughtfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Although he cannot be there himself, he believes the northern climate will be better for her health at this time of year. Perhaps he is right...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am very sorry, said Max," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it is impossible, I fear that thou must go from here with thy mission unfulfilled and without Mademoiselle, replied the Agha, irritatingly calm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "For on my side i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll write to Sidi-bel-Abbés and explain. It's all I can do," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May I see her and deliver in person a letter I have from her father?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was going on in the bride's half of her father's great tent Max did not know, but he fancied that, above the beating of Tahar's tomtoms and the wild singing of an imported Arab tenor, he could hear soft, distant wailings of the ghesbah and the shrill" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is--my Soldier St. George!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am here, now and forever." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't know how glad I am to see you! the girl explained." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've thought of you so often and-- she was going to add impulsively--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was so thankful when I heard my father had sent for me, she quickly went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I heard about it only through _that letter_--you know the one I mean." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know, said Max." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was only to-day they gave me father's letter, which you brought, Sanda was saying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was short, written in a hurry, in answer to one I sent begging him to take me away. Yet he mentioned one thing: that he didn't order you, but only ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me about yourself, now, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My father has told me some things in letters, but I long to know from you if I made a mistake in wanting you to try the Legion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You made no mistake. It'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Didn't you think it queer that no one but a servant came out to see me off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did a little, but I put it down to Arab manners." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It was because I left in disgrace. Oh! no one was ever rude! The...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are you? demanded the uniformed Legionnaire in his halting Arabic." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In the name of France, I demand your business." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I demand my daughter!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soldier St. George" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You were _not_ treacherous, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You did exactly right. You deserve happiness for helping to make that girl happy. And you'll have it! You must! You shall! I couldn't s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sidi, said their leader," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Go on, of course, ordered Max." }, { "from": "human", "value": "As for the music, it must be that the wind brings it from Touggourt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is not possible, Sid...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A caravan--oh! but a huge caravan like an army, she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it is he, Max answered heavily." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think it must be Stanton getting off." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Knight" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curse him! How dare he look at her like that, after Ahmara!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Child! You come to me like a white dove. God bless you! I needed you. I don't know whether I can let you go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is the Sidi who loved Ahmara. One would think he had forgotten her now. Or is it that he tries this way to forget?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur St. George, mon ami!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Soldier" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know each other, Sanda said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I introduced you last March in Algiers. And perhaps you met again here in Tou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I understand exactly what you are thinking about me, Stanton said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must feel I am mad or a brute to want this child to go with me across the desert, to share the fate all Europe is prophesying." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But--but I don't see what's to be done, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mademoiselle DeLisle's father, my colonel, ordered me to take her to Sidi-bel-Abbés." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not ordered; asked!" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "To think this should come to me at Touggourt, where my father's happiness came to him! Sanda murmured rapturously, as Max stood silent." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is Fate, indeed!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to the music of Africa, said...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, _you_ will pitch your camp here for the night, instead of marching on to Touggourt, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I camp here, too. My expedition is delayed for one day more, but what does that matter after a hundred delays? Heavens! I've had to wait f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thought, Max dared to argue," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Damn difficulties! exclaimed Stanton, all his savage impatience of opposition breaking out at last." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you say so, Sanda? When a man and woman need each othe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the last time, he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-morrow night her tent will be Stanton's." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps I deserve it, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know!" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Soldier St. George!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is anything the matter?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, nothing is the matter, except that I've been thinking about you. I could hardly wait to ask you some things. But I _had_ to wait till morning. It is morning now that Richard is up and has gone, even though it isn't quite light. And it's better to talk before he comes back. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are like a man going to his death, she sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, what have I done? It will be something worse, a thousand times worse, than _cellule_. _Mon Dieu!_ I know what they do to men of the Legion when they've deserted--even if they come b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you thought long enough? Sanda asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can't you decide, and save my happiness?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have decided, Max said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If Mr. Stanton will let a deserter joi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'd be a damn fool, my boy, he said emphatically," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It did not occur to him that Max was offering himself on the altar of another temple of sacrifice. He thought the young man was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he would be forced to give it up. But he had found a fierce satisfaction in disappointing them and in showing the world that he, unaided, could carry through a project which daunted all who heard of it. He had triumphed over immense obstacles in getting together his caravan, for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sir Knight." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as he had said, between her curtains. Max, on a strong pony which Stanton had bought as an" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little White Moon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chief," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Like a good chap, gallop ahead with my fellows and see that our tent is set up in the best place, said Stanton in his deep, pleasant voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like Sanda to find it all ready whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must watch myself if this isn't to turn me into a beast, he thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It shan't, or I'll be worse than useless to her. She shan't fall between two brutes." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is there something--something I can do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing, thank you. Nothing any one can do." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you--perhaps you're homesick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Homesick? Her voice broke and, instead of being like an old woman's, it was like a little child's." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, that's it, I'm homesick! And--and I think I'm not ver...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chief's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "St. George, do you know where my wife is?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She told me she felt ill, and that you wouldn't object to my lending her my tent," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I felt sure she'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see you've drawn your own conclusions. Fact is, St. George, I'm in a deuce of a damned scrape, and the only bit of luck is having a sensible chap of my own colour, a friend of both sides, a gentleman and a soldier like you, to talk it out with. You'd like to help, wouldn't you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a man of the world, I expect, or you wouldn't have found your way into the Legion. Before I had any idea of marriage I thought of carrying along a--companion, only an Arab dancing-girl, but I'd take my oath there hasn't been a more fascinating creature since Cleopatra. A ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've just given you my advice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't take it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then don't. We'll leave it at that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ask no better. Do you want to go or stay?" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing less than force could have dragged her to Stanton's tent, and the man openly found consolation with Ahmara; at first, perhaps, partly in defiance, but, as time went on, because such love as he had to give was for the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did I do it? he asked himself afterward. Yet he knew some strange" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "in Europe, he was strong enough to" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little White Moon," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those who are cowards and find the greatness of thy adventures too great for them, now they have tasted hardship, mutter in secret against thee, Ahmara said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There are some who mean to band together and refuse to follow thee past the la...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll show the ungrateful devils who is master," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art back, O master of my heart, from thy visit to the sheikh, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did it pass off well?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well enough," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come here, St. George! I want you; hurry up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell you inside my tent," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't be afraid to come in, Stanton laughed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But _I_ do, Max returned, with the curt politeness of tone which irritated Stanton." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll stand here if you please." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Since that fellow is above taking a message, go you, and deliver it, roared Stanton, repeating in Arabic the orders flung at Max." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Her ladyship knows enough of your language to understand. Say to her, if she isn't at my tent door in ten ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps she took the hint and has gone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I saw you, she said as he stopped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wondered if you would come and look for me." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Weren't you sure? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When I found the tent-pegs up, I knew y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What am I to do, Soldier? she sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know--I never told you anything, but--you _know_ how it is with me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've been always hoping I shou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a wonderful picture, or would be if one were happy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sanda! he breathed. It was the first time he had called her by that name, though always in his thoughts she was Sanda." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're frightening me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sorry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you given your life for me this time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no. I shall be all right now I've got rid of the poison, he answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll bind my hand up with this handkerchief----" }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had gone to the river, she said, with a hint of pride and command in her voice that Max had never heard from her. It forbade doubt and rang clear with courage." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur St. George was afraid for me, and came to bring me back. On the w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sorry, but St. George will have to do the best he can without rest, Stanton announced harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We start at four-thirty. It is to be a surprise call." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But we were to stop till to-morrow and ref...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He asked for that, and now he's got it, said Stanton, panting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Serve him right, and nobody will blame me if he's dead. But he isn't, no fear! Fellows like him belong to the leopard tribe, and have as many lives as a cat. Good girl, Ahma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, all of you! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now halt! You see the man lying there--at my feet, where he belongs. He was my trusted lieutenant, but he took too much upon himself. I knocked him down for insubordination. He doesn't go farther with th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Safe! I've had horrible dreams." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only dreams," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How pale you are!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps it's the ligh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not go back to Touggourt," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why? Because you are thinking of me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Partly that. But it would be as bad for me as for you, now, if you were to be arrested as a deserter. And besides, Sanda ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall have to get off after the heat of the day, Max insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've lain here long enough, for, you see, I must be leader now for you. I must talk to the men and tell them what we've decided." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _can't_ give her up now, whatever happens, Max said to himself sometimes. Yet he did not see how he should be able, in justice to the girl, to keep her. In British territory he would be safe from arrest as a deserter from the Legion. But the very thought of himself as a desert...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is this young fellow who was the only white man with Stanton? He seems at home in every language. Where did he come from?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sanda, Sanda! he would mutter, or cry out aloud; but as fortunately no one knew that Mrs. Stanton, _née_ Corisande DeLisle, was called" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sanda" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Agha's Rose, on to the hiding at Djazerta, and stealing away in disguise with a caravan while the hunt took another direction, all had played itself out according to his plan. Valdez attributed the whole success to St. George's help, advice, and gifts of money, down to the last ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sign, or I'll smash you to a jelly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Old Man doesn't want to be in it, see? said Pelle." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It ain't for him, in the circus, to do the trick; it's for us, _ses enfants!_ And damn all four of m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and in saying this they carefully gave the impression that he had been well paid. Nobody dreamed that the money Mr. and Mrs. Grant Doran-Reeves spent in such charming ways had once belonged to Max. He was supposed to have" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ought to know some woman in the smart set, advised a friend in the half-smart set who had received favours from Billie, and had not been able to give the right sort of return." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, of course, you do know a lot of the men, but they're...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as Jeff Houston remarked, and when the snapshot of Max St. George, deserter from the Foreign Legion, appeared with the newspaper story of Sanda Stanton, Billie did what Jeff described as" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be the most wonderful sort of poetic justice, she reflected, sitting at Max's bedside one day while he slept," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "as she repentantly called it, and letting herself be carried away by Stanton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You thought you loved him, my darling, DeLisle said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I could forgive anything to love." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He didn't speak one word of love to me, the girl said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He tried not even to let his eyes speak. But they did, sometimes, in spite of him. And no man could possibly endure or do for a woman the things he endured and did for me, every one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I suppose you've got hold of the advertisement of that sale I told you of," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why! I've found----" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew nothing else could have excited you so much," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps Mr. St. George will be interested in the advertisement of this sale," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll let Mrs. Stanton read it to him when she comes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "How splendid! You're sitting up, she said." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you glad I'm back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Glad? You're worth all the doctor's medicines and tonics. I'm well now!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aren't you dying to hear my news?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's such wonderful...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "PATTY FAIRFIELD," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "PATTY AT HOME," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BREEZY INN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are seven," } ]