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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A straight pillar of fire went leaping up into the night." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Heaven!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Gabriel, I do want you! I never stood in greater need. Take me on board, and I will tell you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He carried me through mud and water, and set me in his shallop." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Aha! That is better! he exclaimed, joyfully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, madame, what are your orders?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Can you take me to Quebec?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can--but--" }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon, madame; I am not asking questions; I am not even thinking them. You shall come and go as you like with me and mine, and no one shall dare to do aught but obey you. If my plan does not suit, say so freely, madame, and we will go on to Quebec without another thought, and t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, madame, it is the Island. There is my house--the one with the flag-staff. See, my good woman has the signal flying for me. I can never come within reach without her scenting me out." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ma bonne amie! said Gabriel, embracing her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Madame de St. Just has crossed with me from Beaulieu to await le père Jean here, and will stay with you until he comes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Your servant, madame, she a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, these men! laughed the good-natured woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They think the world can't turn round without their advice!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, mon père, I did not know what to do!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank God you are safe and in good hands, he returned, warmly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How was it you came to take this step?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here is your work, he said, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have your education and sympathy on the one hand, and on the other are these little black and brown heads--Bergerons, Tremblays, Gauthiers, and so on--to be filled with some measure of the grace ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le Chevalier de Maxwell is safe; he escaped the night the capitulation was signed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are anxious to hear more, he said, gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me tell you all I know. M. de Maxwell left the town only after the capitulation was reluctantly agreed to by M. de Drucour, who, with all his officers, had protested against it, and wou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Time enough to cry out when we are beaten, madame. We have held them back at Carillon, and will do so again, if need be; they have been beaten in the Upper Country before this, and they will be clever indeed if they can come up the river." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at it well, madame; it is the gate of the finest country le bon Dieu ever created, and we hold the key! No man need have a faint heart when he can look on Quebec. See the little fort there on the top of the Cape! It was made to signal a King's ships only. See the Château wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She is not with us at the moment, my dear, said Mme. de Sarennes;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where is she?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "When you left with le père Jean, she was much distressed, for she had not the same reliance on his assurance of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Le Chien d'Or," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It might not seem much to you, Marguerite, after Paris, but to me it is splendid, and we have all sorts of men here." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No doubt, chérie. And you find them all charming?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, they all try to pl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peace may be proclaimed this winter, and if so, Mme. de St. Just can go without danger in the spring. Besides, she cannot go until she knows of the safety of one she is interested in," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then, madame, said M. de Montcalm, turning to me," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may not have heard, madame, but your brother, who is an officer in Fraser's, a Highland regiment, was captured in the first engagement, and was a prisoner in Louisbourg up to the capitulation. If you wish, I can obtain more definite news of him through M. de Maxwell, one of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M. de Montcalm, I have never heard from or written to my brother since he accepted his English commission," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pardon, madame; I had forgotten when I spoke." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just as we forget, monsieur, that our ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go to your room, mademoiselle! she ended, turning on Angélique." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will hear nothing of your doings among a clique I despise from top to bottom;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish you would come, Marguerite!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I would like to, chérie, if only to see you." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And to see M. de Maxwell too. I should like you to see him. I assure you one does not see such a man every day....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For Mademoiselle de Sarennes," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I bring this fan for Mademoiselle de Sarennes, but I wish, now that I am here, to have a look at the ball. Is there any place where I can go besides the gallery?" }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do not be afraid, he whispered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Hugh! Hugh! my darling!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And bowing low, answered her lively greeting." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep the lady claiming to be my wife at such, a distance that I may never set eyes on her again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good-evening, mademoiselle," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Good-evening, mademoiselle, he repeated, smiling at my dismay." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You did not expect to see me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I did not know you were in ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, madame, you should have been on the floor, and not in the gallery. This ball promises to be amusing, and you are running away before it has fairly begun." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, a thousand thanks for your timely attention, but I must return. I have been over-long already." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My mother grows anxious at your stay, madame, and has deputed me to be your escort." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Monsieur, it is quite impossible for me to accept this gentleman's offer, but I shall be grateful if you will provide me with a different escort." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is not the slightest difficulty in that. M. de Sarennes, I must ask you to remain in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am heartily glad, madame, he said, when we were alone," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am very grateful, monsieur, and would never have troubled you could I have seen any other way of escape." }, { "from": "human", "value": "he continued, to the merry ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Marguerite, for shame! To think of your being at the ball and never letting me know! she cried, to my consternation; but added, immediately:" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad you went, though. Didn't we all look fine?" }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tantum ergo sacramentum Veneremur cernui..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is M. de Maxwell," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marguerite, I have news for you. La mère de Ste. Hélène sends word, saying an Englishwoman has been brought to the Hôtel-Dieu, and from the description I believe her to be Lucie. Do you both go at once and ascertain." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you wish, you may see her now, madame, said the Superior." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And if we are right, it will serve to reassure her, for she is much troubled at being detained here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, my dear mistress! she sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was wicked of me to desert you, but I did not understand where you had gone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, Lucy; I am the one to be forgiven. I should never have left you; but ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are in good hands, my dear, said the old lady, graciously." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Show your gratitude by getting well and coming back to us." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I will do my best, madame. God has been very good to me," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be calm, Lucy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lucie, said Angélique, on entering," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have brought my friend. Shall he come in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, mademoiselle," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hugh Maxwell! What have you done with our son?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now what will you do, Marguerite?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is nothing to do, chérie; such things must die of themselves." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But she said you were a spy, in so many words." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, madame, it seems it is to be war! But instead of money, they have sent us some scanty provisions; and instead of a regiment, some raw recruits to drag out this weary farce, already too long." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am sorry you do not look at it more h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'Anglois sur nos frontières Porte ses étendards. Exaucez nos prières, Protegez nos remparts." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mesdames, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No one expects compliments in time of war, Gabriel. Tell me it is not my son, and you may speak freely," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God, it is not! He came into camp only yesterday, with a hundr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mon Dieu, madame! the Cathedral is on fire! We are lost! At which, a wail of despair broke from us all. Angélique's head dropped on her mother's lap." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "O ma mère! It was God's own house!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mme. de Sarennes, no one suspected you of being here! All the inhabitants fled from the face of the town when the fire opened. Pardon me, but you must move at once." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have only been waiting for orders, monsieur. Where are we to go?" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We made a sad little procession." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is M. de Maxwell!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mademoiselle de Sarennes, will you and your companion support this lad into the Hospital? He is not seriously wounded, only weak from the loss of blood," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep up, my lad; you are among friends! Make your best effort before these ladies!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep up, my lad; you are among friends!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A thousand thanks, mesdames. Good-night!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Madame de St. Just! Think of my being brought here, to find you and my mother under the same roof, and that it was Captain Maxwell who brought me! He saved me when I was down with an Indian over me, and did not get me off without standing some hard knocks himself. He carried...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Try and be gentle, my boy. Be true to him. He has had a sad, lonely life, but you may make it up to him yet. When you see him, tell him from me... tell Hugh..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Marguerite, Charles is here! He is very ill. Will you come and see him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he wounded?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. But he has suffered incredible hardships in Acadie, and he is ill--so ill that he cannot be in h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stay one moment, mademoiselle; I must speak with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is useless, M. de Sarennes; I can hear nothing you have to say. Remember your mother and sister are here within call, and you will only cause them pain if you force me to summon aid, which I will certainly do. Have some pity for them if you have none for me." }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O ciel! Marguerite! See, there is M. de Maxwell! On the Côte Ste. Geneviève!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With hat in hand came spurring on." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mon Dieu! They will never cross! The bridge is blocked!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O mon Dieu! They are cutting it! The whole army will be lost!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My children, he was saying, as we entered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And, as he raised his hand, the people knelt, and with voices that gained confidence as the familiar words fell from his lips, they repeated the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Qui...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have no fear, mesdames, he said, bowing low with much elegance of manner;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am General Townshend. You will suffer no harm; but we must take possession of your convent, for your protection as well as our own." }, { "from": "human...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "O, ciel! Marguerite! is that your brother?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, chérie, I have no doubt it is," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should not sigh over such a misfortune, she cried, gayly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are c...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Archie, I am your sister Margaret." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My dearest Peggy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you say that Maxwell was married all this time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, but--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There are no 'buts'! he interrupted, fiercely." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will kill him on sight!" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By-the-way, Peggy, he said, suddenly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reverend madam, I am put forward on account of my rank, and not for my poor abilities, to thank the ladies who would think so much of us poor fellows as to be doing us this kindness this day. As long as we live, yes, and long after we are dead, moreover, you may be sure that Fra...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, son of Angus, remember, I concluded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I give you my word, Peggy, the general would allow such a letter to pass did it contain all the treason between here and Mozambique. He bids me give it you with his compliments, and assure you that not only is it unread, but that should you wish to answer it under the same restr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Courage! cried Angélique, to a despairing woman." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We will welcome you all back again. You will come in with our army!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Malbrook s'en va-t-en guerre Ne sait quand reviendra," }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Madam, I have come to tell you that your brother, the Captain, is safe." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is he wounded?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, madam, but our surgeon says a fine clean cut; and I believe him too, for he went off to sleep the m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, Christopher, I said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are a brave lad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There were lots more better than me, he said, modestly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell me something of what happened." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What if I am stopped and spoken to in the town?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't be stopped, she laughed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She shortened up straps and adjusted buckles." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There! she cried, as she coiled up my hair tightly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "and she did her best to imitate a martial stride." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou very present Aid In suffering and distress." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Seventy-eighth. It's all right!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon, monsieur, I said to the Chevalier d'Aiguebelle, who commanded the grenadiers," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Call off your men, Captain Nairn! I shouted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is simply murder! I have given orders for ours to withd...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hark you, sir! I am ready enough to join in avoiding useless slaughter, but I have an account to square with you, for which there shall be no calling off when we meet. Remember that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will take it upon me to disobey the order. Fix bayonets, mes enfants! The command was executed in an instant; then, rising in his stirrups, he swung his sword above his head and roared in a voice that could be heard all along the line," }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bravo, Sarennes! I called to him as he rode past a moment later." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your lady-love should have seen that!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Go to the devil!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pardon, monsieur, but are you the Chevalier de Maxwell?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, ma soeur." }, { "from": "human", "value": "M. Dalquier wishes to speak with you. He lies here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "These confounded surgeons will not allow me to speak in person, but I wish you, Chevalier, to thank the General for me. Did you hear about it? No? Then, listen. Just after our charge was made, and we had formed again, he rode up. 'Here is the devil to pay,' I said to myself, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Halte là!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Etat-major, aide de M. de Lévis." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Damn your Etat-major! was the astonishing reply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't you say 'Mistaire Maxwelle'?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What! Not ready yet? Would you have me produce my commission as an officer, or establish my right to arms, before you can cross swords with me? By God, sir! I will stand no more of your precious fooling. Do you think you are going to roar out at me in public like some scurvy sho...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mon père, I said, advancing," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. de Sarennes." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, I know him well." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must wait until I see if anything can be done here before we go. Come with me fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine, Et lux perpetua luceat ei," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lifting his lanthorn, he held it so that the light shone full upon her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Marguerite!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you speak to me thus, mon père? Why do you speak thus?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ma...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your name and rank, sir?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hugh Maxwell, captain." }, { "from": "human", "value": "God bless me, sir! But this is not the first time I have heard your name, nor seen you, if you'll excuse my saying it," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil Murray, sergeant, 78th, six men, two prisoners, and one of our own, wounded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May I ask where you are taking us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Where else would we be going but to the General?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "And where has he found quarters in this stone heap? You have made a fine mess of things with your battering...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reverend sir, he said, addressing the priest," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I take it for granted you are a non-combatant, but as it has fallen to your lot to be brought within our lines, you must perforce remain a prisoner. If you will satisfy me as to your name an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will find among your countrymen an odd rebel here and there, Kirkconnel; but I rely on you to stir up no fresh treason with 'White Cockades,' or 'Bonnie Charlies,' or any other of the old shibboleths." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Have no anxieties on that score...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your Captain is fortunate to engage the sympathies of so fair an enemy," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, father, we do not look on them as enemies at all!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look you here, Master Kit, I cannot have you calling me 'father'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was glad to hear you found friends last night, Chevalier." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Thank you, yes. I found friends both new and old," }, { "from": "human", "value": "This is all emblematic of our fortress, I fear --dissolution," }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chevalier, cried the priest, heartily, as I ended," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I feel that any apology would be frivolous in the face of what you have told me, but I can assure you no man was ever more satisfied to find himself in the wrong than I." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Most certainly, monsieur, if it be her desire. She is a guest to whom we owe much. If you will permit, I will send and inquire." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Very well, monsieur, you may then meet her here in the parlour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Margaret, I said, as I advanced towards her, forgetting all the openings I had so carefully rehearsed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can scarce believe I am awake. It seems incredible I should speak face to face with you here." }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a meeting for which I have dreamed, but tried not to hope," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I had lived for nothing else," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then, Margaret, it has come at last!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, it has n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Margaret, I said, falling back on the most unstudied tones at my command," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is what I desire above all things in the world," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Then let us begin at the beginning. Why was it you never let me ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you accept a broken man's apology for a whole man's insult, Chevalier? I have promised my sister that I would make you this reparation, and I am heartily glad we can return to our old footing of Louisbourg." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Readily, Nairn. I have s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should apologise for having frightened her away as I came in, I continued, feeling for another opening; but he feigned ignorance of my move, and explained in the most natural manner--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, that was not my sister, but a very good friend...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Neil, how is the officer you assisted on the field the other night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Indeed, Captain, you must go away in and ask for yourself." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You are not uneasy as to his hurt proving dangerous?" }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nairn, I declared," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I must either give up visiting you, or you must persuade that timid lady-in-waiting that I am not to be run away from with impunity. Either she must remain in her place to-morrow, or I cease disturbing her." }, { ...