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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem quite to have recovered your spirits yet, Mitford, said Massey to the long comrade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have a bit o' pork? There's nothin' like that for givin' heart to a man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, 'specially arte...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try a bit o' plum-duff, Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! please--don't! Some tea! Quick! I'll go--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Poor Peggy, she never _could_ stand much rough an' tumble, said her husband, returning from the berth to whi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't seem to be much troubled wi' sickness yourself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I am not, which is a blessin'. I hope that Mrs Massey ain't ill?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; my Nell is never ill, returned the coxswain, in a hearty ton...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, said the latter, in a kindly but vain endeavour to comfort Mrs Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There! there's another," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my dear, said Slag, in a soothing, fatherly tone," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know what _you_ think, she said, faintly, when two little boys rolled out of their berths and went yelling to leeward with a mass of miscellaneous rubbish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You make your mind easy, my woman, said her husband, coming forward at t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dear Peggy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ned Jarring, if you ever again dare to take liberties with _me_, I'll tell my 'usband, I will; an' as sure as you're a-sittin' on that seat 'e'll twist you up, turn you outside in, an' fling you overboard!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It do seem more dreary than I expected, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wouldn't be a sailor, Bob, much as I've bin used to the sea, an' like it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Nell, that's 'cause you've only bin used to the _sea-shore_. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This was enough, however, for Hayward, who is a man of few words and swift action. He was unarmed, but carried a heavy-handled whip, with this he instantly felled the slave-owner and one of his men to the ground before they had time to wink, but the third man drew a pistol, and,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I _don't_ believe in 'em," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do believe in 'em, said Mrs Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Flyin' she exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look-out!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, well, she said, raising her hands and eyes to heaven, as though she addressed her remarks chiefly to celestial ears," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think he's dying, sor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has the doctor seen him this morning?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's seed him twice, sor, said Terrence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My poor boy, do you suffer much?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, thank you--thanks--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There, don't speak, dear boy, said the doctor, gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I see you have been thinking about our last conversation. Shall I read to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother--father, he said, after a short pause," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "King of Terrors" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cheer up, David, said the poor wife, grasping her husband's hand, and striving to check her sobs," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ian said truth, it won't be long afore we jine him, the dear, dear boy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, as I was sayin', Nellie, remarked Peggy, in her soft voice, after a brief pause, during which a variety of weak little expressions crossed her pretty face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never could abide the sea. It always makes me sick, an' when it doesn't m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold on, Peggy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "rang through the ship from stem to stern, until it became known that it was a woman. Then the cries redoubled. In the midst of the hubbub the strong but calm voice of the captain was heard to give orders to lower a boat ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stop that bell! boat ahoy!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ship aho-o-oy! came faintly back on the breeze, while every voice was hushed and ear strained to listen," }, { "from": "human", "value": "All right! all saved!" }, { "from": "gpt", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The best an' the worst men i' the ship!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like the look o' things at all," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps it would be well, sir, to lay-to till daylight," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Clear the anchor, and stand by to let go!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let go," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God help us, exclaimed the captain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get down below, all of you!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'ee know when it'll be low water, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not for three hours yet, but it's falling. I expect there will be less sea on in a short time. If the ship holds together we may yet be saved." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I wish i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no bad leak as yet, said the captain, re-entering the cabin, which he had quitted for the purpose of sounding the well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we can keep afloat for an hour or two we may be able to use the boats. Just now it would be useless to a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we launch the boats now, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not yet--not yet, returned the captain, hurriedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must have more light first. The loss of a boat would be fatal. I'm afraid of the rising tide." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Afraid of the rising tide!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A black look-out, Joe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ay, Bob, an' the worst of it is that the tide's risin'. A boat can live here as long as that ridge o' rocks keeps off the seas, but in an hour or so it'll be rollin' in as bad as ever." }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy first, Bob; I'll wait for _you_," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look sharp!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Does any one know if there's anything to eat aboard?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'd better see to that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is nothing for it but to push on till we come to an inlet, or break of some sort in the cliffs, by which we may land, said Hayward, speaking encouragingly to the women." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God helping us, we are sure to find some such place ere long....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nellie, dear, said Massey, when the boat was brought up under the lee of the rocks," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not very, replied his wife, raising her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm strong, thank God, and can stand it; but Peggy here is sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Peggy, my dear, said her husband when it was finished," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Th-thank you, J-John, replied Peggy, whose teeth chattered like castanets," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "La! if the sun ain't blazin' 'ot! An' I'm so 'ungry. Dear, dear, 'ave you bin rowin' all night, John? 'Ow tired you must be; an' your 'ands blistered, though you are pretty tough in the 'ands, but you couldn't 'old a candle to Bob Massey at that--Yes, yes, Nellie, I 'ear you, bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's all right, anyhow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's always all right, remarked Mitford in a funereal tone, which, however, was meant to be confidential." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bless your heart, I've seen that woman under all circumstan...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How did you get on with poor Peggy last night, Eva?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty well, Tom, but she's troublesome to manage. She is so unusually timid, poor creature, so prone to give way to despair when things look bad, yet so sweetly apt to bound into high spirits when things are looking hopeful,--and withal, so amusingly garrulous!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is lucky that one of the pieces of pork happened to be cooked, observed Dr Hayward, as he served out the allowance," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right you are, sir! said Slag, with his mouth full, while with a clasp-knife he carefully cut off another morsel to b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God, Eva, said Hayward, as he steered into the bay," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no, sir, I don't think as _my_ strength would fail, said Peggy, in a feeble voice, for she had overheard the remark." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not that I s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hope they ain't wet," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wrap 'em well up," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything must be quite ready, first, said Hayward to Tomlin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will, replied Tomlin," }, { "from": "human", "value": "D'you know it never occurred to me before how tremendously important the element of fire is? But how wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Tomlin, get out your matches," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I fear they are." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Och! let Bob Massey try it! cried O'Connor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure he's used to workin' in throublesome weather." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Right, boy, said Slag," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knowed it! said Nellie, in a quiet tone, as she saw the bright flame leap up and almost set her husband's beard on fire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bob never fails!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure ye've smothered it intirely," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No fear, it's all right," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's going to do," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Any child might tell that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said Dr Hayward, when the fire was safely established," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, doctor, since you're good enough to ask me, I would advise that we should appoint a leader. You see, mates, he continued, addressing himself to the company in general," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first thing, then, is to thank God for our deliverance, which we all do, I am sure, most heartily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Amen" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Next, we must find fresh water and boil a bit of pork--" }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the doctor, when our coxswain led him to the spot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's true, sir, returned Massey," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I've been thinking about that, said Hayward," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hm! no...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! now there's nothin' wantin' to produce parfit felicity but a pipe," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's so, lad," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, Terrence," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I couldn't do that, Bob, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh! it's 'baccy as is my chief joy, At mornin', noon and night; An' it's verily my belief, boy, That I love it with all my might. If your liver an' lungs are squeakin', An' your head is growin' cracky, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Haven't ye a small bit o' 'baccy in the corner o' wan o' yer pockets, doctor, dear? asked Terrence, insinuatingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May be ye'd find a morsel if ye'd try." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite useless to try, my poor fellow,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh! I _do_ so wish that we had oysters for breakfast!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear there are no oysters hereabouts, said Hayward," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, we must go about this business thoroughly, said the doctor, when they were all assembled in the camp one day after their frugal meal, excepting O'Connor, who was a short distance off, trying, with unwearied perseverance and unvaried failure, to kill gulls with stones." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well done, Terrence! cried Hayward as he came up with his prize." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I regard it as a good omen--a sort of turn in the tide which will encourage us on our contemplated expedition." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In short, said the doctor in conclusion," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Grub," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just so. Grub is our first and greatest necessity. Meanwhile, Peggy, Nell, and Eva will do what they can to make our camp comfortable: gather mu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The very thing!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And how would you propose to cut the bones, John?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cut 'em? eh! well--wi' the knife, of course." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This won't do, said Slag, on making the discovery." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll have to steer d'rect for the highest land." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's so, Joe, said Mitford," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sees it, John--b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's a rabbit I saw, he said, returning to his companions," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's freezin' I am, if not froze, said Terrence O'Connor at the end of the second sleepless hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If we could have only brought away some o' the fire in our pockets, what a comfort it would have bin!" }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast fust, said Slag, on completing a tremendous stretch and yawn." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's always bin my way since I was a babby--business first; pleasure to foller. Grub is business, an' work is pleasure--leastwise, it ought to be to any man who's r...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The spalpeen! he's off again, said O'Connor, turning round as they halted to rest a minute, after breasting the hill for half-an-hour." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hallo, John! Where are ye, boy?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here--all right, shouted...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must go back at wance, said O'Connor, with anxious looks," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is very sad to give over our search for poor Mitford, said Dr Hayward one morning, while seated on a ledge of rock near the beach, taking counsel with his male companions as to the order of procedure for the day," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All right, cap'n, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, said the latter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've heard--though I can't rightly say I've seed it done myself--that the seal-hunters o' the north do their work wi' clubs; so, if one man can kill a seal wi' such a thing, I don't see why another shouldn't." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is--if Nellie has got enough of line made." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep up your spirits, dear Peggy, said Nell, in that sweet, cosy tone--if we may say so--which played such havoc in Bob's bosom at the time when she was known as the coxswain's bride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel _sure_ that your dear husband will return to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Believe in strong feelin's, Nellie? I should just think I do. Not to mention my own feelin's--which are so strong that I never felt nothink like 'em before--any one who has been married to my John must know well what st-strong--oh! no, I shall never see 'im again; dear Nellie, d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you see, Peggy, replied her friend, with the confidential air of one who has a secret to tell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lawks! Nellie, an' that _will_ give 'em a surprise! interrupted Mrs Mitford, drying her eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad you think there's enough, Bob, for I've come to the end o' the stuff you gathered for me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plenty more where that came from, Nell; but there's no need to gather more than enough; for enough, you know, is as good as a feast. Well...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never fear, said Eva, who carried the baling-dish full of shell-fish in her hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall never forget the fright we got that time Joe let it get so low that it was almost at the last spark. You won't be long away, will you?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Nell, he said, on landing," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, Hercules, lead the way with your club," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good luck! exclaimed O'Connor, springing forward, and grasping an object which lay on the ground. It was a hatchet, covered with red rust." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here is something else that will be useful," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gin, I hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Physic, I think," }, { "from": "human", "value": "A paper!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, we must find that garden, said the doctor," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hooroo, Bob! exclaimed O'Connor, flourishing the frying-pan in his excitement," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call upon Me in the time of trouble and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me. He had seen this invitation accepted by the dying man and deliverance obtained--if a happy smile and a triumphant gaze across the river of death were to be regarded as testimony." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Strange! thought the man, as he moved slowly forward." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Was this split made hundreds--perhaps thousands--of years ago, for the purpose of enabling me to escape?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Certainly not--absurd, presumptu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weary, weary--desolation!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We can't be far from it now," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a gruesome place," }, { "from": "human", "value": "To think that so many lives were lost here--or hereabouts," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' their ghost, maybe, hangin' about...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come along, let's take 'im home at wanst, cried the Irishman, when they had got the poor dazed man into the boat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Isn't it Peggy that'll open her eyes an' screech for joy when she sots her eyes on ye!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nell, murmured the coxswain in a deep, earnest whisper to his wife, who stood at his elbow," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What d'ee mean, Bob?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Five men went away, Nell; _six_ are comin' back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peggy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But a ship is long, long o' comin'," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A ship'll come, Joe, when God sees fit to send it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The only thing I feel an awful longin' for now, at times, is a bit o' 'baccy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So does I, Ned, an' I sometimes think Dr Hayward has got the advantage of us there, for he never smoked, so he says, an' in coorse it stands to reason that he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure it's devils that must live in the bodies o' some men," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're too hard on the devils, Terrence, said Bob Massey." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Some men in this world do the worst _that they can_, an' surely devils can...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pears" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you goin' to fish for sharks to-day?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Faix, no; it's to the woods I'll go fishin' to-day, Joe. Now, Nell, gi' me the stoutest line ye've got on hand, mavourneen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will that do? I made it th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's risin' tide with us again, after a fashion, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is, Bob, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What! alongside o' Aunt Betty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, even alongside o' Aunt Betty; for i...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get out the boat, boys!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Get ready, quick! Eva; a steamer at last, thank God, in the offing! Don't lose a moment. They may have little time to wait. Boat will be ready in a few minutes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ay, an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fifteen saved this time, Nell," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank the Lord!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You mustn't come near us, said the nurse, with a look of warning." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only a look just now." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jeames" } ]