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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have patience, good women, the gendarmes and guards replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turn us back, they wailed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Turn us back. It has not penetrated inland, or we should have heard of it on the route. Turn us back, or set us free to escape by ourselves. 'Tis all we ask. It is our due. The law desires not our death. Above...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well out! cried Marion Lascelles, her voice still harsh and strident, her accent defiant and contemptuous." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well out to sea! Yes, after traversing that fever-stricken city from one end to the other to reach the docks. How shall we accomp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sticks of St. Roch," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Galley slaves, one of these warders answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alas! the woman answered, gathering up her skirts even as she spoke, so as to flee as swiftly as might be after her flock, which had gone on without pausing when she herself did so." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I burn! I burn!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Observe, dear one, she muttered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For, she said a moment later," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I HAD NOT LIVED TILL NOW, COULD SORROW KILL" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God for that. For that," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, thank Him for that. 'Tis well we do so, sinners as most of us are. We need His help and blessing. But, hear me. Can we not also retreat tog...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are refreshed, the former said to her companion;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will be brave, Laure answered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will struggle to the end. My heart is broken, death would be welcome--yet not such a death as this. Oh! Marion, I do not desire to die thus--like those, and she pointed to some of the awful yellow-face...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is the men's chain-gang, I wonder? she mused aloud." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men who, poor wretches, are in many cases our newly-made husbands. Where can they be? They were ahead of us all the way; therefore, since we have not passed them, and since, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yet, she whispered, half to herself, half aloud, so that Marion heard her words;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your husband? the other interrupted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You pray that he may be dead! He who gave up all for you--the man whom yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, nay. He would not do so. Believe that Desparre lied when he said that your husband was dead, since how could such a creeping snake as that slay such as he was, one so noble. Believe he lived, and, thus living, returned to find you gone. But, in doing so----" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These are the women, the emigrants, one of the latter said to the other." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good women, whither are you going? Your destiny is Marseilles, en route for New France." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Answer," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those who drove us from Paris here have fled in fear of the contagion that is amongst you. We, too, have sought to flee away from it. The law which condemned us to transportation to New France, to be followed by our freedom, did not condemn us to this." }, { "from": "gpt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not weep. Do not weep. Already is our once bright, joyous city a vale of tears. Nay, there can be, I think, no more tears left for us to shed. I myself can weep no more. I who, in the last week, have buried my wife, my two daughters, and my little infant babe." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mon ami! exclaimed one of the high-born dames, who kept to the right side of the alley, to an aristocrat who sat on a bench beneath a tree close by where one of the fountains of Eaux St. Fer bubbled forth its waters," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mon ami, you do not...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now for the health. What is the worst?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Diane, I suffer. I burn----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Roi Soleil!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Armand, dear friend, you are not going to quarrel with me for a foolish word; a silly joke! Armand, the memories of the past brought me here--to see you. I heard that you were suffering, and also--that--that--you--could not recover from the trick put upon you by that girl--Laure...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It amuses you? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This thing? And she read out the title of one of Piron's latest productions, the comic opera," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Arlequin Deucalion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "One must...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has Madame la Marquise by chance any protegé among her many friends who has written a play with a plot? An embryo Hardy, for example. Almost, if a poor poet might be permitted to have a thought, and again his glance rested with contempt on Desparre;" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you not tell us, Madame la Marquise, something of this plot, at least? the duke asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, nay, Monsieur le Duc, the dramatist exclaimed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, turning to the Marquise, he asked:" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Always, he remarked quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have thought that Madame la Marquise was possessed of the deepest friendship for Monsieur le Duc." }, { "from": "human", "value": "she exclaimed, transfixing him with her wondrous eyes." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do what you will, said those aristocratic tyrants, who (after having preached up the place as one from which almost the elixir of a new life might be drawn) had now followed their patients to the spot thereby to guard over and protect them, and, also, to continue to increase the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mon ami, said the Marquise Grignan de Poissy to a youth who approached her as she made her way through the press of her friends, the young man being none other than her nephew, the present bearer of the title of the de Poissys," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yet, she...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The scene is in two acts. The title is 'The Abandoned Orphan.' The leading characters are Cidalise, who is the orphan, and Célie, who has protected her. The first act exhibits the child's abandonment, the second--but, no! Mesdames et Messieurs--that must be left for representati...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whispered Agénor to his aunt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. It is I, she whispered back. In solemn diction, the woman unfolded her story. The story of an innocent girl betrayed into a mock marriage, a fictitious priest, desertion followed by death, and her own ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THE ABANDONED ORPHAN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the venerable Marquise de Champfleury, a lady who, fifty years before, had been renowned for her _bonnes fortunes_ in the Royal circle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "of the troupe--seemed more fitted to some bully or sharper than to an exquisite. So, too, did his expressions, his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Health, belle comtesse! to one high-born (stage) lady, his" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A Prince!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "she whispered, changing her form of exclamation somewhat--probably for fear of being monotonous." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sign, dear idol, he whispered in a stage whisper," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sign, Cidalise." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sign," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cidalise," }, { "from": "human", "value": "So, exclaimed Célie, her eyes still on Cléon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, Cidalise. Continue." }, { "from": "human", "value": "D. O. R., murmure...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What must I sign? whispered Cidalise, trembling, and playing her part as the audience said afterwards, _à ravir_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? What?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Demand of thy uncle--uncle, mon Dieu! Demand of Dorante. Speak, D...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mesdames et Messieurs,--you hear that bell. Alas, that it should--although we are desolated in obeying it--that it should be able to call us away from this most ravishing drama. Yet, my dear friends, we have our healths, our most precious healths, to consult. If we miss our revi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Begone. Quit the stage. Your parts are played. And, he muttered to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Desparre. Come, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The company has broken up. It is time to--to--to take the waters." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, Desparre, the other repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If not the waters, at least to your apartments. Come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "THE WAY TO DUSTY DEATH" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If, said Lolive, the Duke's valet, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Doubtless Monsieur was tired, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, the fellow asked himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he should die to-night, he muttered inwardly--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lolive, uttered a voice from behind him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lolive!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Monsieur, the Virgin be praised, he exclaimed fawningly and with a smile of satisfaction, as he ran forward to where Desparre sat, still rigid, though not so rigid as before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Monsieur is better. What happiness! Monsieur will go to b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Desparre said, while, as he did so, his eyes gleamed dully at the other," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For Marseilles?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ask no questions. Go. Hangdog I Go, I say. And come not back until you bring me news that the carriage...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The second time, he muttered to himself, as he did so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The second time. What--what did the physician tell me? What? That, if the first stroke did not kill neither would the second, but that--that the third was certain, unfailing. If tha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baulked thus, he reflected;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take, said Desparre, his eyes glinting hideously, as Lolive thought," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are highwaymen, brigands, upon the road, Lolive, he muttered, fixing the valet with his eye." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thieves everywhere. It may befall that I shall have to shoot a thief on the way. I had best be armed--ready." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God! the fellow muttered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I should be too late. God! if the transports should have sailed!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Laure, his own child! His daughter!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He rides apace, Desparre muttered;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am not mad, Desparre whispered to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have seen that form before. Yet where? Where?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What should he do? What? What? What?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Startled" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! Monsieur, Monsieur le Duc, he gasped," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cannot go forward! Desparre ejaculated." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why not? Has that man--that man who passed us endeavoured to stop the carriage?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where, he repeated," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Close outside, Monsieur; but, oh! in the name of all the Saints, go not forth. It is death! It is death!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is death if I do aught but go on, the Duke muttered to himself;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is this I hear of the pestilence at Marseilles? he asked, as, seeing in front of him an inn before which his carriage was drawn up, as well as a number of strange, sickly-looking beings huddled about in front of it--some lying on wooden benches running alongside tables and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have escaped, one answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Man, Desparre answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who, he asked, still standing on the platform of his carriage with his richly-embroidered sleeping gown around him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Strangers. Nay, nay! Strangers. Bon Dieu! Does Monsieur think strangers seek Marseilles now, when even we, the Marseilla...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There left Paris some weeks ago--many weeks now--two gangs of--of emigrant convicts for--for the New World. One cordon was of men, the other of--of women. Have they, are--are they there in that great pest house?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The men are there." },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, do not come for them--there!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Doubtless they will be of assistance," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur le Duc, we cannot go on. We--we dare not. This is no duty of ours--to risk our lives in this manner. No wages could repay us for doing that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You must go on, Desparre said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "If not--wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the pause was very long here," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will drive you to the gates, he said quietly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come, said Marion Lascelles to Laure," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will that come to us--if we live? murmured Laure to the man who walked by the side of her and of Marion." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Will anything we do here, and any dangers to life we encounter, give us our pardon; save us from voyaging to that unknown land?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who are they? asked another Sheriff, who came up at this moment, while he scanned the worn and emaciated women and ran his eyes over their dusty and weather-stained clothes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Surely you are not bringing to our charnel house the refugees ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the end, muttered Marion to herself, her dark eyes roving over all and seeing all as the women passed along--themselves now hideous in their vinegar-steeped wrappings--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is my own house--my own house! a man, writhing in a porch close to where she was, gasped to another who parleyed with him from a door open about half a foot." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, my son! my son! let me die here on my own doorstep, if I may not enter....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Brute! cried Marion, hearing all this." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Brute! Animal!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, nay, murmured the dying old man, while understanding." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, curse him not, good woman. He speaks well. Why should I poison them? And--I am old, very old. I must have died soon in any hap. It matters not." }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! you are too much of my own kind to have any fear. You women have nothing to be robbed of--nothing to lose. And--Marseilles is full of everything which any can desire, except food and health. Here is the house. If you like it not, there are many others." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My sisters, she cried," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fear not, the man replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Fear not. The owner fled at the first outbreak. Not one has died here unless--unless some have crawled in to do so. It is untainted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Marion to him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The mansion of a rich, wealthy merchant, Marion thought to herself, seeing all these things plainly in the pure moonlight streaming from the untainted heavens above." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The home of gentle women and bright, happy men. Now, the refuge of suc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sleep, said Marion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Can he undo the law? muttered her companion, as now she prepared to find rest by Marion's side." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Are we not condemned to be deported to the other side of the world? How the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I may dare to pray--I--I--who have so outraged Him and all His laws. Yet, what to say--how to frame a prayer? 'Tis years since she who taught me my first one at her knee--since she--ah! pity me, God, Marion broke off," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know not how ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fie! Fie! Shame on you! he said to the former, as he saw him strike the second with his cane." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For shame! The man is older than you, and apparently feeble. Put up your stick, bully, or seek a more suitable adversary." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A strange beggar! exclaimed Walter, now." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You pester a man until he beats you, yet refuse alms when cheerfully offered. By heavens perhaps he was not so wrong. At least, you are an ungrateful churl." }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The prison of St. Martin des Champs! And--deported--to--America! Is this true? You swear it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Before Heaven and all the angels." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Whose doing was it? Who sent her--there?" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She lay there--there, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he pointed to a spot at the side of the table;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can, Walter said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was Vandecque. Go on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What did he do? Walter asked, dreading to know what awful outrage might have been offered to his insensible wife as she lay before her ruffian captor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What? Tell me all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He tore from his lace...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ay--he is missing. Some of us--I have met them in the wineshops--think he is dead. He knew too much. He--all of us--have paid for our knowledge of that night's work. Yes, dead! we think." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "muttered Walter to himself," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must find her, he muttered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must find her!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Admit you! exclaimed the galley slave who now filled the post of the dead and gone gate-keepers (with, for reward, a prospect of freedom before him when the pest should be finally over, if he should be alive by that time)." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Admit you! Na...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why drew Marseilles' good bishop purer breath, When nature sickened, and each gate was Death?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thy uncle can thwart us no more, Julie. The pest has done us this service at least." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "REVENGE-BITTER! ERE LONG BACK ON ITSELF RECOILS!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yet, Clarges asked himself, as he dismounted and left his tired horse standing unheld in the deserted street," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Desparre! exclaimed Walter Clarges now, abandoning all title, all form of ceremony." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Desparre, how it is that you have been delivered into my hands here to-night in this loathsome, plague-stricken spot, I know not. Yet I know one thing. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No silence on your part can save you. Be dumb if you will, but act. Draw your sword at once or stand there to be slain, to be righteously executed. I have to avenge to-night the wrongs of myself and of my wife--your daughter. Ha! you know that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Draw." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has he died of fright? Clarges whispered to himself, while he bent over the prostrate man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Died of fright or by God's visitation? Or is he dead? Anyway, he has escaped me for the present. So be it. We shall meet again, unless this scour...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Almost I could have sworn, the _galérien_ muttered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Spared him, he hissed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Spared him. Why, why, why!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He may spare him, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will not. My wrongs are as great, as bitter as theirs. I will have his life. Here--to-night." } ]