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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thee has safety, he had said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will go back. I will say that I killed him. I have taken a life, I will pay for it as is the law." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have no right to save me only to kill me, she had said desperately." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You would give your life, but you would destroy that which is more than life to me. You did not intend to kill him. It was no murder, it was punishment. Her voice h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have taken a life, O my God! he murmured." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Accept mine in service for this land. What I have done in secret, let me atone for in secret, for this land--for this poor land, for Christ's sake!" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beware Nahoum! But those who had been at the Palace said:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Beware the Inglesi! This still Quaker, with the white shining face and pontifical hat, with his address of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "and" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May God preserve thy head from harm, excellency, and the night give thee sleep," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May thy head know neither heat nor cold, and thy joys increase," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have work for thee at last, Mizraim," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At last?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast but played before. To-night I must see the sweat of thy brow." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a woman swims in a founta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then listen, and learn why I have need of thee to-night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And he who lies dead, excellency?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My brother." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Foorgat Bey!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Even he, Mizraim. He lured the girl here--a mad man ever. The other madman was in the nex...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A blow with the fist, excellency--skilful, and English. He looked inquiringly at Nahoum." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "As a weasel hath a rabbit by the throat, so is the Inglesi in thy hands." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And if I went to Kaid, and sa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So be it, excellency, and my life is thine to spill upon the ground, a scarlet cloth for thy feet. And backsheesh?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For backsheesh, thy turban full of gold." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is there now to do, excellency?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My coachman is with the carriage at the gate by which the English girl left. It is open still. The key is in Foorgat's pocket, no doubt; stolen by him, no doubt also. . . . This is my design. Thou wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a brother of Cain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I would give my life a thousand times rather than that," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But be merciful to me, Thou just Judge of Israel, for Thou hast made me, and Thou knowest whereof I am made. Here will I dedicate my life to Thee for the land's sake. Not for my so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, the garden where to-day we sow and to-morrow we reap! O, the sakkia turning by the garden walls; O, the onion-field and the date-tree growing, And my hand on the plough-by the blessing of God; Strength of my soul, O my brother, all's well!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've got a letter for you, Lacey said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The lady's aunt and herself are cousins of mine more or less removed, and originally at home in the U. S. A. a generation ago. Her mother was an American. She didn't know your name--Miss Hylda Mary...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Such things I dreamed not of in Soolsby's but upon the hill, Faith, though, indeed, that seemed a time of trial and sore-heartedness. How large do small issues seem till we have faced the momentous things! It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do you not know me?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you not see--do you not know?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has thee found in the past that thee is so soon forgotten?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, do not blame me! She raised her veil suddenly, and showed a face as pale as his own, and in th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By what happened I have come to see what matters in life. I was behind the hedge. I have broken through upon the road. I know my goal now. The highway is before me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wish I knew life better. Then I could make a better answer. You are o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I could have, would have, killed him myself without a moment's regret. He had planned, planned--ah, God, can you not see it all! I would have taken his life without a thought. I was mad to go upon such an adventure, but I meant no ill. I had not one thought that I could not have...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is only one course to pursue, he rejoined quietly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know who you are, she broke in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know what your religion is; that fighting and war and bloodshed is a sin to you." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was writing to one who has been as a sister to me. She was my mother's sister though she is almost as young as I. Her name is Faith. There is nothing there of what concerns thee and me, though it would make no difference if she knew. Suddenly a thought seemed to strike him." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think that no one knows the truth. But it is all in the hands of God. We can do nothing more. Thee must go. Thee should not have come. In England thee will forget, as thee should forget. In Egypt I shall remember, as I should remember." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is thy business, pasha?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May thy path be on the high hills, Saadat-el-basha. I come for a favour at thy hands. Nahoum sat down." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What favour is mine to give to Nahoum Pasha?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So did Foorgat, my brother, die while yet in the fulness of his manhood, life beating high in his veins, with years before him to waste. He was a pleasure-lover, alas! he laid up no treasure of work accomplished; and so it was meet that he should die as he lived, in a moment of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But if I would have it, if it were well that it should be, I doubt I have the power to make it so." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Saadat-el-bdsha, Kaid believes in thee to-day; he will not believe to-morrow if thou dost remain without initiative. Action, however star...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are not mistaken, she said slowly in French;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She looked him in the eyes determinedly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur Claridge is not my kinsman, but he is my fellow-countryman. If you mean well by monsieur, yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pasha, he said to Nahoum," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Shall I speak, then? He paused and made low salutation to David, saying," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Excellency, I am thine ox to be slain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak, son...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thee will remain under this roof to-night, pasha?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will stay if thy goodness will have it so, answered Nahoum slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is not my way to hide, but when the storm comes it is well to shelter...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thee will go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have finished our business, and it is late," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thee will rest here, pasha, in peace. In a moment I will return." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no need to accompany me, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My cousin waits for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, looking for me? said a voice, and a figure moved towards David." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yours to command, pasha, yours to command." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thee is welcome, friend," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's ready...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Uncle Benn! Uncle Benn!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Whence came thy servant sadat?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He was my guide to Cairo. I picked him from the street." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, your Excellency used independent judgment. Thou art a judge of men. But does it make any difference ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Saadat! Saadat!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The gardens of the First Heaven be thine, and the uttermost joy, Effendina," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A thousand colours to the rainbow of thy happiness," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What hour didst thou find him? Where hast thou placed him?" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Foorgat?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Effendina, answered High," }, { "from": "human", "value": "There was no wound?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None, Effendina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The thong?" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May thy days of life be as a river with sands of gold, effendi, he said gently. He had a voice like music." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "May the sun shine in thy heart and fruits of wisdom flourish there, Effendina," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Am I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then if it be my hand that lifts up or casts down, that rewards or that punishes, shall my arm not stretch into the darkest corner of Egypt to bring forth a traitor? Shall it not be so?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It belongs to thy power, answered David." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nahoum--I do not understand," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He comes of his own will, Effendina." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Wherefore? Kaid could not realise the truth. This truth was not Oriental on the face of it." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why did Nahoum go to thee?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I might beg his life of thee, Highness, as I said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have not ordered his death." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was agreed between us yesterday ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is Nahoum?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace be to thee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And to thee, peace, O Prince, answered Nahoum." }, { "from": "human", "value": "May the feet of Time linger by thee, and Death pass thy house forgetful." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What are t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well? asked Kaid, with a ring to the voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They are loyal, Effendina, every man. But the army otherwise is honeycombed with treason. Effendina, my money has been busy in the army paying and bribing officers, and my spies were costly. T...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is thy intention towards Nahoum, Effendina?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou hast asked his life--take it; it is thine; but if I find him within these walls again until I give him leave, he shall go as Foorgat went." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zaida. Inshallah! Zaida, she was called. She has the truth almost of the English. She could not lie ever. My heart smote me concerning her, and I gave her in marriage." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He shall die the death, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is it not so?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is a traitor; he must die," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If he were thy brother, thou wouldst kill him?" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Allah hu Achbar! Allah hu Achbar! Ashhadu an la illaha illalla!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Inglesi must be the first to go; shall a Christian dog rule over us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nahoum will kill him. Higli Pasha laughed low--it was like the gurgle of water in the narghileh--a voice of good nature and persuasiveness from a heart that knew n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beware, Saadat! See, I am Mahommed Hassan, thy servant! At midnight they surround Kaid's palace--Achmet and Higli--and kill the Prince Pasha. Return, Saadat. Harrik will kill thee." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Waladalleen--Ameen-Ameen! Waladalleen--Ameen!" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace be unto thee!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is thy business with me, effendi?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I come on the business of the Prince Pasha," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The feet of them who wear the ring of their P...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dost thou think I did not know my danger, Eminence? Do I seem to thee such a fool? I came alone as one would come to the tent of a Bedouin chief whose son one had slain, and ask for food and safety. A thousand men were mine to command, but I came alone. Is thy guest imbecile? Le...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the interpretation, O Prince! Prince Harrik has conspired against his brother the Prince Pasha, has treacherously seduced officers of the army, has planned to seize Cairo, to surround the Palace and take the life of the Prince of Egypt. For months, Prince, thee has done ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neither Higli, nor Achmet, nor any of thy fellow-conspirators has betrayed thee, David said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God has other voices to whisper the truth than those who share thy crimes. I have ears, and the air is full of voices." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why art thou here? For what hast thou come? Do the spirit voices give thee that counsel?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am come to ask Prince Harrik to repair the wrong he has done. When the Prince Pasha came to know of thy treason--" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is no other way. Thou art a traitor. Thou wouldst have been a fratricide. Thou wouldst have put back the clock in Egypt by a hundred years, even to the days of the Mamelukes--a race of slaves and murderers. God ordained that thy guilt should be known in time. Prince, thou ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The lions are loosed upon thee" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If it become known to Europe that the army is disloyal, that its officers are traitors like thee, what shall we find? England, France, Turkey, will land an army of occupation. Who shall gainsay Turkey if s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are two ways only, David continued--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Day by day I saw Egypt given over to the Christians, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Greek, the Italian, the Frenchman, the Englishman, everywhere they reached out, their hands and took from us our own. They defiled our mosques; they corrupted our life; t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It were a foolish thing to attempt my death, he said calmly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been thy friend to urge thee to do that which saves thee from public shame, and Egypt from peril. I came alone, because I had no fear that thou wouldst go to thy death ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick! The horses! What are they? Bring me word," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kaid! The Nubians!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Nubians--from the Palace." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kaid had not faith in thee, Harrik said grimly." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harrik !" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fatima!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But it is the beginning--the beginning, he said aloud to himself, looking out upon the green expanses of dourha and Lucerne, and eyeing lovingly the cotton-fields here and there, the origin of the industrial movement he foresaw--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "the wo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Nile, yes, rejoined David, and smiled also." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We shall cross it presently." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The bridge is open--we are lost. Effendi--master--Allah!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jump-jump into the river-- quick!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, think of Egypt and all the rest. You've got to save yourself--let me splash along!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Zaida--the peace of God be upon thee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And upon thee peace, Mahommed," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thou hast trouble at, he said, and put some cakes of dourha and a meated cucumber beside her. She touched the food with he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall be his punishment--so foul, so wolfish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mercy! moaned Achmet aghast." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Mercy, Saadat!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thy crimes sent to their death in the Nile those who ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is another singer, and the last. Is it the Effendina's pleasure?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take thou thy flight, O soul! Thou hast no more The gladness of the morning! Ah, the perfumed roses My love laid on my bosom as I slept! How did he wake me with his lips upon mine eyes, How did the singers carol--the singers of my soul That nest among the thoughts of my beloved!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O cursed day that saw thee leave these walls! I did it for thy good-- thou wert so young; thy life was all before thee! But now--come, Zaida, here in Kaid's Palace thou shalt have a home, and be at peace, for I see that thou hast suffered. Surely it shall be said that Kaid honou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Know thy punishment, son of a dog with a dog's heart, and prepare for a daily death, said Kaid." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This woman thou didst so foully wrong, even when thou didst wrong her, she was a leper." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mercy! Mercy! Achmet cried, horror-stricken, and turned to David." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thou art merciful. Speak for me, Saadat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "When didst thou have mercy? asked David." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you accuse me of that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I accuse you of nothing. Fitzpatrick pawed his white beard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I only know that a great quantity of valuable furs, trapped in your district, have not been turned in to me here at the factory. It is to explain this discrepancy that I have c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I tell you I have no idea where they are, returned the post captain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So far as I know, the usual number of pelts have been traded for at the fort. If any have disappeared, it is a matter of the white trappers and the Indians, not my aff...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here! he said simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have you got against me? You know as well as I do that there isn't another man in your whole district you would call in from a winter post to accuse in this way. What have I done? How have I failed in my ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up to this time, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, burst out McTavish," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is hardly the time for personalities, McTavish, said the other, harshly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What I want ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "McTavish!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you know that half-breed, Charley Seguis, in your district? He comes up with the _brigade_ every spring, I believe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I know him. He is a skilful trapper and a half-bre...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's most remarkable, sir, said Donald, genuinely puzzled." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never would have suspected Charley of that. He has brains enough to know the consequences of murder. I can't understand it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Neit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he only knew--if he only knew! he muttered to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He must know soon, or there won't be half the pleasure in it for me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you tell Miss Jean that I'm here?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They told me you were here, said Jean Fitzpatrick," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You know I would give them all if I could, returned McTavish, simply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would sledge the width of Keewatin for half a day with you." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, Jean, said Donald, after grave consideration." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are old enough to think for yourself--twenty-four, aren't you?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, then, he continued," }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's an Indian proverb that says, 'When the wind dies, there is no more music in the corn,' she replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is no more music in my heart, that is all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What made it die?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I can't help it, Donald, she said, in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm sorry, truly I am sorry. I--I didn't know these things. And, perhaps, you'll be shot, you say? No, that must not be. You must come back, even if things aren't what they were." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jean, he said harshly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mr. McTavish is going now, father, she said, quietly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm sending him away." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll look to that Indian woman, muttered Fitzpatr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you know about this murder?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not much, replied Buller." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The day after you left, one of the Indians tore in at midnight with the news. He said that he and his partner, the murdered man, had been met by Charley Seguis while running their trap-line, and that Charley ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can you tell me where Charley Seguis is?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Went north, toward Beaver Lake, three days ago, replied the other, shortly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He stopped here on his way up, and said he was looking for better grounds....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Better to fight and die alone in the deep woods than to live all one's life as a jellyfish," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's funny, thought Donald uncertainly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't understand it at all. He said he was coming in to his old shanty on this fork of the Beaver when the fall trapping began." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, what do you want?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By George! I'll do it. Charley Seguis can wait. I'll back Jean's common sense and intuition against the blue laws of the whole Hudson Bay Company." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hands up!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does this mean? demanded McTavish savagely, his blue eyes dark with anger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am McTavish, of the Fort Dickey post, and, when the factor hears of this, it will go hard with you men. I am on official business, and I demand an explana...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We are in council to-night to decide what to do with Captain McTavish, he said slowly, using the excellent English at his command." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How he has come here, I do not know. Who told him of the Free-Traders' Brotherhood, I do not know. As one...