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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Starboard, hard a starboard, he called out in a voice that his men had known well in old fighting days and which was heard as far as the cutter itself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They shall not fire that gun again!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am going to clear those men from our way to freedom and to love! I am going to sink that boat: they shall pay with their lives for this! Come to the other side, Madeleine, and watch how my stout _Peregrine_ sweeps our course--and then I may see how these scoundrels have mangle...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out, every man. We'll run her down!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lights, my lads, cried Captain Jack, with a shout of exultation, when the anxious instant had passed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Take in every man you can save but handspike is the word for the first who shows fight! Curwen, do you get her clear again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rest here, he said quickly, once more striving to see her beneath the jealous shade." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must find out if anything is amiss on board the ship and attend to these drowning men--even before you, my darling! But I shall be back instantly. Yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go, she said with as much firmness as she could muster." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me not stand between you and your duty. I am strong." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Any damage, Curwen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bowsprit broken, and larboard bulwark stove in, otherwise everything has stood." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Casualties?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, sir. We have three of the cutter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have no time to waste in talk, my man, he said commandingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How many were you on board the cutter?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How many have we got here?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "At last! he said, panting in the excess of his joy;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At last, Madeleine ... I can hardly believe it! But selfish brute that I am, you must be crushed with fatigue. My brave darling, you would make me forget your tender woman's frame, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, Madeleine! here in the sanctuary I had prepared for you, where I thought you would be so safe, so guarded, tell me that you forgive me for having brought this injury to you. Wounded, torn, bleeding.... I who would give all my blood, my life, if life were not so precious to m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madeleine, he cried with passionate anxiety," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, said Molly, defiantly, when twice or thrice his laboured breath had marked the passing of the horrible moment," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not Madeleine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You know me--perhaps by hearsay--as I know you, Captain ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she said, and this time the smile came back to her face," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am Lady Landale, and my sister Madeleine--I grieve to have to say so--has not had that courage for which you gave her credit to-night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But why--why in the name of heaven--has such a trick been played on me ... at such a time?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why this deception, this playing with the blindness of my love? Why this comedy, which has already had one act so tragic?--Yes, think of it, madam, think of the tragedy this is now in my life, since she is left behind and I never now, with these men's lives to account for, may g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, I await your explanation. So far, I find myself only the victim of a trick as unworthy and cruel as it is purposeless." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain Smith, she exclaimed, flashing a hot glance at him," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do me the favour, she continued," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, forgive me, make allowances for me, Lady Landale, I am quite distracted! There had returned a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is over, all over. She has lost her trust. She does not love me any more." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he said then, looking up at Molly with the most extraordinary pain in his eyes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "A cruel letter! Yet I am the same ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Forgive me, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I believe that you meant most kindly, and as you say, I should be grateful. Your service is ill-requited by my reproaches, and you have run risk indeed--merciful Heaven, had my old friend's wife been killed upon my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not thank me, she exclaimed, glowing with a brilliant scorn in which the greatness of her beauty, all worn as she was, struck him into surprise, yet evoked no spark of admiration." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I did I did, to gratify myself. Oh, aye, if I we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The _Peregrine_ men! But the ship has been out of sight these eight hours!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My wife, he exclaimed, bounding up; and added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As God is my witness, he repeated," }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See, your honour, see, cried René, in deepest agitation," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But why should she have gone with them? came, after a moment, Sir Adrian's voice out of the darkness." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Surely that is strange--and yet ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "His honour will see, a boat will be landing instantly with My Lady safe and sound," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great Heavens! muttered Adrian." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He will surrender; he must surrender! He could not be so base, so wicked, as to fight and endanger _her_!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will not your honour come in? The rain is falling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Renny, no, give me my lantern again, friend, and let us examine anew." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She returns, she returns," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold up your light, your honour--ah, your honour, did I not say it?--while I go to help Madame. Now then, you others down there, running to the landing spot," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My Lady first," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The lady, ay, ay, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is good news, your honour, after all, good news. My Lady is on board the _Peregrine_. I made these men speak. They are the revenue men--that God may damn them! and they were after the captain; but he ran down their cutter, that brave captain. And these are all that were saved...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's a fine day, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you know, Curwen, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The wrong young lady, sir, staring with starting, incredulous eyeballs," }, { "from": "human", "value": "here he clapped his thigh," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well of all--the wr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I don't blame you--you did your part all right. Why, I myself fell into the same mistake, and we had not much time for finding it out, had we? The lady you see--the lady--she is the other lady's sister and she came with a message. And so we carried her off before we knew whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And what'll be to do now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By the God that made me, I haven't a notion! We must take all the care of her we can, of course. Serve her her meals in her cabin, as was arranged, and see that she is attended to, just as the other young lady ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, madam, said he, as he drew close and lifted his hand to his head, with a gesture of formal courtesy that no doubt somewhat astonished a couple of his men who were watching the group with covert smiles and nudges, being as yet unaware of the misadventure," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I trust you are well attended to, began the man constrainedly again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I fear you will have to endure much discomfort. I had reckoned----." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not complain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will do our best for you, and if you will take patience, the time will pass at last, as all time passes. I have a few books, they shall be brought into your cabin. In three days we shall be in St. Malo--There, if y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Before heaven, cried Jack, distressed out of his unnatural stiffness," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "flushing boyishly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You did not think it unfit for my sister." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your sister? But ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What a fright!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See what you make of it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is so, then?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Aye, sir, no mistake about that. There's the tricolour up again--and be damned to it--as large as life, to be sure!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A strange thing, went on Curwen in a grumbling guttural bass," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, Curwen, it is the last thing I looked for. And it spells failure to me--failure once more!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does it mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It means strange things to France, responded Captain Jack slowly, with a bitter smile;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what does it mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It means, Madam, that I have brought my pigs to the wrong market, cried Captain Jack, still with the smile that sat so strangely upon his frank lips;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bring her alongside one of those smacks yonder, the furthest out to sea." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ahoy, the friend! A golden piece for him who will come on board and tell the news of the town." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let me speak to him, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very good," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I like to talk the father and mother tongue," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if you will allow it, she went on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am glad to be of use too." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Call the men up, said the captain," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Curwen, said Captain Jack, suddenly--the two stood together at the helm on the afternoon of the same day, and the _Peregrine_ was once more alone, a speck upon the waste of waters," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have made up my mind to return to Scarthey." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beg pardon, sir, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How now?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, sir, rolling his head portentously;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It can't be done." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But it's g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would speak a word with you," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "On deck, then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is that not dangerous?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "But they must be watching for you on that coast. You have sunk the boat--killed those men. To return there--My God, what folly!" }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not have you go into this danger, I will not!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Landale, you misunderstand. It is true that to see you safely restored to your husband's roof is an added reason for my return to Scarthey--but were you not on board, I should go...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you not remember then--what she has said to you? what she wrote to you in cold blood--the coward--in the very moment when you were staking your life for love of her? I remember, if you do not--'You have deceived me,' she wrote, and her hand never trembled, for the words ran a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When, she pursued," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lady Landale, he said, after a silence during which the beating of her heart turned her sick and cold, and all her fever heat fell from her, leaving nothing but the knowledge of her shame, her misery, her hopeless love." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lady Landale, le...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you no word for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Only this, Lady Landale: I will forget." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The moon sets at half-past eleven, he said to Curwen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gaudy bubbling and remorseful day had" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the course of an hour, Madam, he said in a grave tone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hope to restore you to land. As for me, I shall have again to hide in the peel, though I hope it will not be for long. My fate--and by my fate I mean not only my safety, but my...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are suffering--you are ill, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thus do I bring you back to him who last saw you so full of strength.... But you will recover at Pulwick." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Suffering, ill! Ah, my God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Recover at Pulwick! My God, my God! The air at Pulwick will stifle me, I think." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Boat loaded, Curwen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This hour, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ready to cast?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right, sir." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Curwen." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You, Curwen? Remember we have not a moment to lose. Remain here--as soon as the men are back from the last run, sheer off." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let some one call the lady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, my lads, brisk and silent is the word." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have been very patient," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My Lady and Mr. the Captain! My God--my God! so wet--so tired! Enter--enter in the name of heaven. It is good, in verity, to have My Lady back, but, Mr. the Captain, is it well for _him_ to be here? And Madam is ill? She goes pale and red by turns. Madam has the fever for sure! ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My good Renny, said the captain," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no time to lose. I have a hard hour's work to do, before I can even think of talking. I want your help. Your light will burn all safe for the time, will it not? Hark ye, man, you have been so fait...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he cried, feeling with quick hands the nature of the obstruction," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The same, my friend! Now hang that tarpaulin against the mouth of the cave and be sure it is close; then we may again have some light upon the matter. What we must do wil...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, to work, man! We have to crack every one of these nuts, and take the kernels out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's the kernel you see, he said to René, who had watched the operation with keen interest." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And when we have shelled them all I will show you where to put them in safety. Now carry on--the quicker the better. The sooner we have it all...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank goodness, it is done, said Jack Smith." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And thank you too, Renny. To-morrow, break up these casks and add the staves to your firewood stack; then nobody but you, in this part of the world, need be any the wiser about our night's wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No one must know, Renny, was all he said, at last, between two gapes, kicking the hearthstone significantly, and stretching his arms," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And my faith, said René, when he sought his wife a moment later," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never speak even his name again, Sophia; all that is finished for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come away, come away, she whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A growing day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madeleine, he said, with low rapid utterance;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not mistaken, I trust, in thinking you look on me as a good friend?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Indeed, yes; answered the girl, with an effort, turning her tremulous fa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing more than a friend, sweet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A kind cousin; almost a brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no; not a brother, Madeleine. Nay, hear me, taking her hands and looking into her uncomprehending eyes," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Madeleine?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cousin Rupert, I am sure you mean kindly by me, but it is quite impossible--I shall never marry." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pshaw, my dear Madeleine." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Please, Cousin Rupert, no more." }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have done with it all for ever----" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I came, sir, to see if there be news of her Ladyship ... or of Sir Adrian, sir--Renny can't leave the island, you know, and he be downright anxious." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, my good woman, calm yourself. Nothing wrong; nothing to hide in this very laud...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something more than anxiety for news there, Mrs. Potter, said Mr. Landale, apostrophising the retreating figure with a malignant, inward laugh! Then, when the last echo of her stout boots had faded away, he entered his sister-in-law's room, looked around and meditatively began t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the grooms will ride at once to Lancaster with this," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Send the groom to me as soon as he is ready," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So ho! Mrs. Potter, your careful husband could not leave the island? muttered he, as he marked the unmistakable squat figure of the one, a man carrying a burden upon his shoulder, whilst, enveloping the woman who walked briskly by his side, flared the brilliant-hued shawl of Mog...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Shearman's house! I thought as much. Out he comes again, and not by himself. I have made acquaintance with those small bare legs before. I should have been astonished indeed if none of the Shearman fellows had been mixed up with the affair. I shall be even yet with those cre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Johnny! The boy debated a moment, measured the distance between the cottage and himself, and shrewdly recognised the advisability of obeying." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Johnny, my boy, I want you at the Hall; take hold of my stirrup, and come along with me." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you little devil, what is the matter with you? he asked, grinning ominously into the chubby, terrified face." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It strikes me it is time you and I should come to a little understanding. Any more letters from the smuggler to-day, eh? A...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you want to be hanged, Johnny Shearman? he asked again gravely. The lad burst into gasping sobs, and looked up at his captor with an agony of fear in his bloodshot eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, continued Mr. Landale," }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, Johnny, he said more pleasantly, well knowing the inducement that a sudden relaxation from fear offers to a witness's garrulity," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think I may say you will not hang this time--that is, with a sudden hardening of his voice, and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Moggie, said Lady Landale, panting and pressing her hands upon her side as if in the endeavour to control the beating of her heart," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, it is wicked, it is mad! cried she passionately;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of whom are you speaking? he asked, with an involuntary glance of contempt at the distracted figure." }, { "from": "human", "value": "If it is of yourself, I entirely conc...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is for you--for you! she repeated with ashen lips;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And is it not too late? stormed he." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Too late, indeed, do I see my treachery to Adrian, my more than brother! Upon my ship I could not avo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And it will have been through me--it will have been through me! Oh, in mercy let me make the signal! Say you will go to-night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have come--hide--hide!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if it be Adrian?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is but one man, cried René from his tower down the stairs." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may open, Moggie." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damnation!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want? demanded Molly--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I came, my dear sister-in-law, said Rupert in his coldest, most incisive voice," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have a care, sir, he exclaimed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have an account to settle, it seems to me, Mr. Landale, said he, taking another step forward and slightly stooping his head to look the other in the eye. Crimson fury was in his own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I doubt much whether it was quite wise of you, ass...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, Captain Smith, and about this account? Lady Landale, I beg of you, be silent. You have brought sufficient disgrace upon our name as it is. Nay, sir, raising his voice," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let him speak, she cried," } ]