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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what half an intelligence will do for a man! said McTavish to himself, with contempt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This fellow is just bright enough to be better than his class. He therefore immediately sets himself up as a leader to buck the Company. God he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have a plan in mind, which we must discuss--privately, out of the captain's hearing. He turned to the Hudson Bay man, and spoke decisively:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You shall hear our decision to-night, sir, whatever it is." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's me, Charley Seguis, was the reply, in the voice of the half-breed. Even in this moment of stress, Donald noticed half-wonderingly the mellow cadences in the voice of this man of mixed blood. While speaking, Seguis had en...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you suppose, captain, that I've known you were on my trail for days? I have the sense to know that. But what brought you veering off the trail to Sturgeon Lake is beyond me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you kill Cree Johnny?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll tell you nothing about that, was the crisp reply." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's talk of what is more important now, and that is yourself--and what's to become of you." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you want to say to me about myself?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "After an hour in council, I come here, delegated by the brotherhood, to make you a proposition. His gaze met that of his prisoner fairly, as he continued:" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you see that your superior, the factor at Fort Severn, hates you bitterly? I, myself--I've seen things there. Last summer, I was at the fort, you remember. I was there all the time you were. I watched you--and Miss Jean--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop! Do...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get to the point--if there is one!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The point's this, came the instant reply, uttered with a slight show of asperity;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What cause have I ever given for you to believe that I was anything but loyal to the Company?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "None," }, { "from": "human", "value": "If I've given no cause for such an idea, Donald went on, fiercely," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come to you, a prisoner and a burden on us, he said, bitterly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I come with courteous words, and, in return, I get insults. In spite of your attitude, I'll give you another chance for your life... Will you come into the brotherhood as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You don't mean that you'd send me on the--on the Death Trail?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, that, my boy! he had exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, that's an exploded yarn. Some people say the Company sent free-traders to their deaths that way. But who knows? Who can tell? I can't." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So the council has decided, came the quiet statement, in reply to the prisoner's startled question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can't kill you outright. To do that would be more than flesh and blood--even Indian flesh and blood--could stand in your case, Captai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You might try suicide, he suggested, with an intent of kindness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That way would spare the feelings of us all." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When do I go?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "To-morrow morning, Seguis replied, stolidly. Then, abruptly, the half-breed's manner softened, and he spoke in a different tone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We're all disappointed, Captain McTavish, that y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, the servant of the house was saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I must see him! replied a croaking voice, using the Ojibway dialect." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have come many miles to see him, and must go away to-day." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, miss," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come in close to the fire. You must be cold, suggested the girl kindly, noting the pinched brown features." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I will talk to you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I go with my son to the hunting-grounds this afternoon,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will kindly keep to the matter that brought you here, Maria, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can leave you out of it, but not McTavish," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What do you mean?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I haven't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, she said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will do what I can to have my father see you before you leave this afternoon. If he will not, then you may know that everything possible has been done. If he will see you, I'll send a boy to find you." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Father, began the girl, coming straight to the point," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I have seen her, I think, he replied cautiously after a moment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "She came here to-day, and insisted, almost violently, on seeing you. Butts was about to send her away when I interfer...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you mean to stand there and say that you demand that I tell you something? he roared." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, I refuse, that's all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I ask it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, there...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When will these Indians learn that lesson?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The trapper they just rescued is asking to see you, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Claims his message to be most important, sir, 'e does." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Life and death?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Might as we...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I go into a shanty, an' fin' paper not burn' In stove just wan end. I pick it up; I read de English good, like I talk. McTavish teach me dat on long nights. B-gosh! _m'sieur_, I read dat fas', once, twice. Den I go out, an' jump into de sleigh, an' point Ba'tiste's nose to Fort ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Free-traders! Free-traders! he gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "By heaven, this is too much! For thirty years, I have been factor in this district, and kept the hunters in line. But, now, there's a brotherhood of free-traders. They'll flout the Company, will th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That settles it, said he." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's McTavish bringing in Charley Seguis." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's not McTavish walking at all! he suddenly cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's an Indian. And five minutes later:" }, { "from": "human", "value": "By heaven! That's McTavish on the sleigh." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is the man you went out to get, McTavish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At Sturgeon Lake." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He ought to be here in jail." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know it, sir. I did the best I could." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then, I have failed in my duty?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Judge for yourself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What are your next orders for me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A hundred dollars fine and a month's confinement in the fort h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Besides, he added pathetically," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Break your pipe, and ask for the one in the hallway," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Captain McTavish, said the man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Miss Laura Fitzpatrick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What have I done to deserve this punishment? he asked himself. And then, aloud:" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, she gasped breathlessly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I suppose you think I'm awful, don't you, Captain?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Quite the contrary, Miss Fitzpatrick, he replied, gravely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are a dear little woman, and I'm overwhelmed with your kindness," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, she went on briskly, to cover her confusion," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're not a good host, Captain McTavish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You haven't asked me to call again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Forgive me! cried the confused man." }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Michael, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Quick, kick the dogs up! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We must push on at once. I am followed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What was that clew you had in regard to Jean Fitzpatrick?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Friends told me, very quiet, that old Maria, who was at the fort the day before we arrived, and who tried to see the factor, had kidnaped her. But for what reason I have no idea....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is this Maria?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Captain, said the Indian," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I would rather not tell you. It would only make you unhappy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll be much more unhappy if I know there ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shall we rest now, Captain?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Surely it is hers, said Peter Rainy, examining the object." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But see, Captain. It's now six days since they took her away. The trail going from here was made day before yesterday. Why should they have stayed here so long?" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you see, Peter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Far off, I see a shanty and a dog-train in front of it, he said, slowly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And, now, I see smoke coming from the chimney." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By Beaver Lake." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are much too far south to be on the way to Beaver Lake. Something else has brought you here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My mother is getting old; she prefers to travel the forest, and not the muskeg...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where is the factor's daughter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She left us two days ago," }, { "from": "human", "value": "And you will never see her again," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you mean by that?" }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But he shall have her, Charley Seguis shall have her," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Give me authority, and I will take them back, so they can make no more trouble. Tom is a good Indian, except with his mother. Him I trust, but that old squaw --he shook his head gravely--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you are going back with them, broke in Donald...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How's this? he said to himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The whole camp must have slept late," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobody's here, he said, blankly;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, old wilderness, we'll fight it out, and, by heaven, I'll break you, too!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Great heavens! Doesn't the fool know that's thin ice? he muttered, excitedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Does he want to drown?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, she replied simply, and he thrilled at the sound of the voice he loved." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God, I am with you, at last," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dearest, said the captain boldly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No! She shook her head." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They took the guns off the sledge before I ran away with it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We haven't anything to start ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I--I can't very well sleep outside the shanty, said Donald as indifferently as possible." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no tent or sleeping-bag. I should freeze to death." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Is there no way to make a partition?" }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Those will do for to-night, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, don't go away and leave me alone," }, { "from": "human", "value": "We'll go together then, princess," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm glad Mr. Gates, the missionary, is with your father," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not, particularly; he's only in the way, and wants to preach all the time, when there's fighting to be done. Why are you glad?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Jus...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Donald, of course we have to be a little foolish sometimes, but I must ask you to agree with me that we only be good friends after--oh, say three o'clock in the afternoon. From then on, no foolishness, it will spare us a lot." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, to return to the preacher, he resumed presently, as they had more fish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it will be better for all hands, if we marry at once. This little honeyless honeymoon won't stand the strain of months, dearest, for in that time it wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Otter!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jean, he said at last," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why? she queried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here, we are comfortable and safe; we are in bad shape to travel without a sledge, and the dangers are many, especially since you have no gun. Let's s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, McTavish, how the deuce do I see you here? You ought to be up at the fort. But, say, old man, I'm glad you broke out. That thirty-day term smelled to heaven when the old man gave it. Good for you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you, Braithwaite? cried Donal...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, by heavens, Mac, blurted out Braithwaite," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't know you did this sort of--er, were away on a vaca--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Answer her question, commanded Donald, bluntly;" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, it was this way, Mac. There was a lively little argument goin' on out front, where some of our boys were tryin' to capture some of their'n. You see, the factor thought, if we captured those fellers, and brought 'em back to the fort prisoners, it would end the free tradin'....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Donald. At least it changes directions." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That I must go to Sturgeon Lake and father, to-morrow. Of course, you have already decided to head that way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, but I feel that you ought to go ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Everything will be all right in a few days, and when we reach Fort Severn again you can talk all you wish, for then we'll have been married," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter with him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wolves! cried Donald, sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And on our trail! Run, Jean, as you have never run before. If we can make cover, we're safe... Mistisi, mush on, you fiend, or I'll break your back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damnation!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Donald! I can't go a step farther. Go on, and leave me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Donald, my revolver is empty," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cartridges in my left pocket," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here you, whoever you are! cried Donald." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come and help us out of this." }, { "from": "human", "value": "By heaven! It's Captain McTavish and the girl, cried a hearty voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, I g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have so much to say to you, Captain McTavish, that I hardly know where to begin, he said finally, speaking in a calm, but strong, voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I see you here under most peculiar circumstances." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ye...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I do not need a week, a day, or an hour, to think these matters over, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All I can give is a final and inclusive, 'No!' to all of them." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, sir, he cried, almost triumphantly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I shall have to tell you then that it is impossible for you to marry Jean under any circumstances." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you kindly explain your assertion, sir? he asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You haven't yet made yourself quite clear." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean, said Fitzpatrick bluntly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stop! Stop! You ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How do you know this? he asked, in a thin voice he scarcely recognized as his own." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What proof have you? Where did you learn it? If you can't show indisputable proofs for every word you say, I'll have you bounded out of the Company like ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ye-es, stop--I'll tell--oh, my God--_stop!_" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Speak! Who is the woman?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maria, the old squaw," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Has she the certificate?" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That fiend lies, curse him; he lies, I say!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But yet, if it wasn't true, he wouldn't dare," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If I am chief commissioner, he reasoned," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If only murder weren't against the law!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halt!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Master, master, what is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me what happened to you, first, and then I'll give you the queerest half-hour you ever had," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How long were you with my father?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "From the time he came to York factory until he was married in Montreal. I stayed a year with him there, but found I was dying of homesickness for the woods, and had to get back to them. But I went up wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, said Peter simply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But how did you know it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I can't resist him, and have my whole family dragged through the mud, can I?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, this man Fitzpatrick is bound to drag it through the mud anyway. He hasn't waited all these years for his revenge to let it slide through his hands th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peter, he cried finally," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll do it on one condition, and that condition may be the death of you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That you start to-night for Winnipeg, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm on parole, and can go anywhere, and, as for these things--I have friends in the camp!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For a week now, said Timmins, spitting into the fire contemplatively," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect there'll be action pretty soon, won't there?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I reckon there will. Now that you've brought Miss Jean back, a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jean!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Donald!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I couldn't sleep; I couldn't even try, so I told father I was going to take a turn or two down the main 'street' of tents, she cried, in answer to Donald's question." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And to think of meeting you! I'm so glad!" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jean, he said earnestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't do it. I would sell my soul to marry you to-night--yes, actually sell it to the devil; but, as a man who pretends to be honorable in his dealings, I can't. Oh, it simply kills me, this refusal; but the f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'll hear many things about me that are not true, and never could be, Donald said at the last;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Those you shall have always, was the reply;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is that?" }, { "from": "gpt", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's the deuce to pay for somebody, boys, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, boys, he remarked," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I was out in the woods last night; in fact, I heard the shot that finished Indian Tom off." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on--out with it! Is it so hard to remember?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess, boys, he finally blurted out," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'd rather not say; it was a private matter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Didn't you give...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Really, McTavish, was the factor's firm greeting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never knew any one to come up before me as regularly and for as many varieties of crime as you do. Too bad you don't devote that splendid ingenuity to something worthy." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he snarled to the others," } ]