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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spiritual fiddlestick! burst out Jeanne, turning fiercely upon me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have you ever kissed her?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, of course I will! cried Rhoda Polly the golden-hearted;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forgive me. I wanted to tell you myself, I said, still humbly;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The fighting tail have gone off to-day to rustle chiffons, cried Rh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Poor precious waif, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, cried Rhoda Polly, hardly able to curb her feet to a decent walk," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do let me come and help. Ask your father. I should love to! And I should have far more idea than a man. I could get mother to come too, sometimes, though you know how loath she is to move far out of her own house. Still, she could drive over." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promise, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course I told you, Rhoda Polly. Who else could I have told?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know it is rather a pity not to tell mother, she said at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, _mon ami_, said Rhoda Polly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A talk with him is my refreshment!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spell ho! Rhoda Polly would cry;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If it were not that Rhoda Polly knows so much, I should begin Latin this very day, said Liz;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know I don't, said Hannah," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, that last you don't, retorted Liz Deventer;" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though he slay me, yet shall I trust in him!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, Angoos, _mon ami_, have I all those friends already? I owe them all to you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not to me, dear Alida, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are all tattlers in the south, said Claire," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard it from my friend who had service here. It is different at Nîmes or Grenoble, where the families are mostly Protestant." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come and see me before anyone else." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, Keller Bey? I asked sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you not find yourself comfortable among us?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Too comfortable by half, he grunted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keller Bey, I said," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Angoos, who would have thought that we had among us at Autun such an observant boy! You have reproduced my room there with hardly a change, save the pictures and the pottery. Has your father let them to us along with the house?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall like them all. I feel sure--or almost." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does Rhoda Polly sing? Can she play?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In a way, I answered lamely enough;" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course I love Rhoda Polly, and so will you (and more than I love her) when your eyes are opened!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is all you say and more. She makes me so ashamed of myself!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So she does me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does she make you feel that too?--I am glad," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a little late with my invention, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall have to wait for the next war to make my demonstration complete." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You may not have to wait so long as you think! said the Bey quietly." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had some little trouble like other folks, said Dennis Deventer lightly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah! said the Bey reflectively, as they passed on. In the big gun foundry a huge Hercules of a fellow, naked to the waist, thrust his way through the little crowd...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are having such a success among the men as I never saw the like of, and would not have believed if I had not seen with my own eyes. Have you been to St. Etienne or Creusot? Many of our fellows come from there. It is possible that they may recognise you." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think Hugh likes me, she said, more than once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He never comes to see me--not even to tell me how selfish I am!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The letter? Oh, Maister Dennis just read it and put it in his waistcoat pooch. Syne, says he, 'Saunders, will ye drink?' 'No,' says I; for if I did, when I gaed hame I micht smell! So he gied me yin o' thae French sovereigns as easy as puttin' a penny in the plate. Oh, a grand m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is a revolt in Paris, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely there is no danger here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I know of, I answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How long ago was that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Only about two months, I explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But Rhoda Polly, her mother, and the others--are they in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have never known politics to improve the weather or keep off frosts! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have yet to learn what good they do to a working gardener!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You of the South are afraid when a mouse squeaks, the Secretary of the Interior had replied (for Dennis and he were closeted together)." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We accounted for the Reds easily enough in October and again in January. They have lost both in powe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Imperial" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marx," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is the speaker?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where have you come from, he demanded," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been fighting along with Garibaldi, I answered truthfully enough," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not been long in the National Guard." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We shall be glad to aid our brothers in Marseilles if we are let alone here. We desire no fighting. The troops of the tricolour are not within our gates, and though there are some left who think differently from us, we can, I believe, live on excellent terms with them, until our...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What of Dennis? they cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dennis Deventer? Are the works to be closed? Where is the week's wage to come from?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "To-morrow, he said" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "All this may seem very strange to you, he said, with a faint feeling of apology in his voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And your duty to Linn and Alida?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Personal and private interests must give way at such times," }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you come here? he demanded abruptly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Because, I said, looking at him with my bandaged head lifted on my hand," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I had not thought youth so cruel, he moaned." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now, Keller Bey, what do you mean to do with me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the meantime I shall keep you by me as a hostage. The voting is not yet over, and, though I do not anticipate any violent change, there is always a possibility that the fiery spirits may urge violent measures. In that case I shall use you for a messenger to our friends at Châ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps you would like me to lead your thousand men to Marseilles as well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, he replied unexpectedly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am not sure but that it is an excellent idea--you are a friend of Gaston Cremieux...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did I tell you? he cried, patting me on the shoulder;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They had come to France to keep prisoners safely." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or ticket-of-leave man became so overbearing that it took half a company of National Guards with fixed bayonets to convey him to the" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "lay his thumbs together, and in an instant he was leading the formidable warrior whither he would as submissive and obedient as a child. Calvi was called and came hastily in, donning a uniform coat, and leaving a half-played game of" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Number 333, he said, with severity," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "sacks of coarse jute, arranged these to his mind, and finally had laid himself down on them, only rolling over occasionally to refill his pipe or to wheel his couch into a shady place or one more convenient for a friendly gossip. On the whole this was the man I liked best. His" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Les Misérables." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hernani." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your servant, sir!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You take me a little by surprise--ah--from Keller Bey? Are you a Communard, young man?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not run with the wolves too long or the wolf-hunters may not stop to ask the difference. There is a fable about that--which I have read somewhere--in Perrault or La Fontaine. Take back your parole and get out of Aramon. All this foolishness will go like that---- (he snapped h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See here, he said, chuckling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As yesterday--no change. Guards--Caspar and Nolli. Both quiet. Messenger from Communal Government to ask about a report I am supposed to be making. Exhibit this." }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here--here, he explained," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Les Misérables." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But, Monsieur Weyse, you will be here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, that is different! I am a lonely man, and a servant in the way ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jump over the wall, he whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It doesna maitter. It's all the wan thing! was all that I could get out of Jack Jaikes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now then, catch a haud and I'll hae ye beside me in the crack o' a cow's tail!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Salle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know, I know, colleen, he would answer contritely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, then, how about the people with whom you have talked, and who may be depending on your words?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "he would say quizzically," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would bear watching," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now our family is more like itself again. Angus me boy, and how did ye leave my good friend the commander of the forces?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "St. Patrick's Day and a fine morning to be whittling shillalahs. But Keller Bey has not seen the first green of his wild oat-sowing. Let him wait till his lambs begin to frolic. Then I do not envy him his task. As for me, Jack Jaikes and I are making this place so strong that th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ask Jack Jaikes!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Bureau of the Incompetents" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cæsar" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only those on the roof, I answered readily," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you know that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because I went up there to take the air after dinner, and I leaned my back against one while I smoked." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let Dennis Deventer take care, he snarled," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That will do, Raoux, said Keller Bey, somewhat impatiently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall send for you again when I need you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will send for me when you want me--take care I do not come when you want me least!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moderates and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mountain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are arming, he said one day in early April," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Government of Versailles is not so far off as you think, I said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, why, why? he gasped, poking his head through the door--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This young man has brought us important information, said Keller Bey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He has discovered a semaphore signal newly erected on a spur...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can see nothing--there is nothing to see! he cried, gesticulating fiercely with fingers like claws," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will send him to the Central Prison if he has been bringing us false news--and of course he has. What a blessing! I have a committal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have it, he cried, his brow glued to the eyepiece and his hand signalling for stillness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, do be quiet!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The devil is in the fellow's legs, said Keller Bey." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he exclaimed at the first pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell us what they say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "One moment--they are beginning again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are playing with levels and angle-machines as they used to do when I was at Avignon. They went out every day clean and came back dirty. The colonel could find nothing better for them to do. To-morrow we shall send half a column of ours and shoot a few. Then the rest will ke...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They do not understand the Commune or what it means--they do not know the spirit of the Internationale here. They care nothing except for their little municipal quarrels. They cherish wild, vague hopes about the works, and would attack the man upon whose charity they are living....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Jack Jaikes," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Man, I could be doing wi' ye fine, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My brither passed for the kirk and was something of a dab at the Greek. You learned yours here in France--will that be the same sort? It will? That's grand. Ye can gie me a bit help, then? I h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "electrically, to make them" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "under Keller Bey's orders, my heart beat with the after-guard. My instincts were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Partick Social Warblers, in memory of a certain church glee-club soirée, to enter which he had once paid a" }, { "from": "human", "value": "in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Between posts 48 and 49, Norwell and Omand warned. Ready there, file out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Heir at Law calls" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I kenned wha that idiot was that set yon infernal thing blazing, I would knock the amazing friskiness out o' him. Have I not telled ye a score o' times that ye are no to make exhibitions o' yerselves? Exhibitions, did I say, waur nor that, juist blank eediot targets that the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It had been remarked, even before he left the Clyde, that he was" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A fight, chuckled Jack Jaikes, half to himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A deserter!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in, Jack Jaikes--what will you take? Try those kidneys--they are rather good. No, no, your chaps can't want you so soon. You are not hatching them out there, you know!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--such as he used occasionally in the works--escaping his contr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had to do it, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it isn't that, she said, answering a question in my eyes which was also an accusation;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a man that is obleeged to me, Angus me lad. He runs a copper ore boat from Huelva--that's in Spain--to Marseilles. If we could get the owld Keller man down there, I know a boatman in the Joliette who would give him shelter till the steamer lifts her anchor. There is no n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Separate fiddlesticks! shouted Dennis Deventer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does he mean such comfortable old soup-bags as Père Félix, or wine-skins like Pipe-en-Bois, or alcohol gutters like the Marshal Soult? Let him set his mind at rest. They are safe. No Gover...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, for a good Scots or Ulster head on a man--even English would do because of the fine, solid underpinning and bodygear the Lord God puts into his southern-built vessels. But when a man gets this megrim of honour in his brain, there is no saying beforehand what he will or will ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We cannot be sure of doing much, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must wait with us and see the rubber played out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--let those who heard him see to it that there were ten times that number of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "! For what were their brethren shut up there (he pointed to the Loches-like cliff of masonry above him, nearly twice the height of Rochester Castle), and answe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here in Aramon we have a Government, and over it presides a Great Shadow which has been sent us from the Internationale. What did ever the Internationale do for us? Did it stop this war? Did it force back the Germans? You tell me that we owe to this shadow the thirty sous a day ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yonder lie the workshops--the place where money is spun--money such as you have no idea of--millions a week--all the fruit of your toil. Do not break the machinery. We will set it spinning money on our own account--but first we must be quit of Dennis Deventer and his foreign gan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We don't want to hear Père Félix! Down with the traitor! Trample him, spit upon him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Comrades and citizens, in the name of the Commune of Aramon, elected by you, I address you----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will not hear me, he cried, so that this time the words reached the ear of Barrès." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why will they not hear me?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Because your day is past--you are down, you and all your gang. You silenced ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is mine, he muttered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is your father, Jeanne--go, fetch him home!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, said Jeanne," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have found such a nest of logs--fine burning wood. You are just in time to cut it into faggots for me. Then I can go and bring away the rest while you are at work." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Féli...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whist now, Jackie, said the voice of Dennis Deventer at my elbow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait--oh, wait, growled Jack Jaikes, jerking his joints till they creaked in a way he had when he was excited;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I shall make t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What could not a score of us be doing with plenty of ammunition and our Deventer rifles?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will our turn never come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear not to-night, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, I never knew that we harboured such wretches among our men. Surely they do not come from the Works?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said Dennis, settling himself with his back to the chimney pots," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I rather judge...