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[ { "from": "human", "value": "James, he said, and laid a hand on the other's shoulder," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who've you got dining with you, Jimmy? he asked. The introduction of" }, { "from": "human", "value": "An old uncle of mine, was the reply." }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh!--oh!--oh!--pah!--phew! The victim writhed and spluttered protests." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dry up--Garm, you great donkey! Piff!--you're--smothering--me--beast! Ugh! my collar--clean--no offence--Jimmy, I 'pologise--lemme get up ... Faugh!" }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, Uncle Bill, exclaimed his nephew." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're early--nice and early--we've just started training for the Regatta and we're straffing the coxswain by way of a start! Er--Staff Surgeon Tucker, Sir William Thorogood." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, said his nephew," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, said Mouldy Jakes, sharing with his friend the responsibility of entertaining this eminent guest." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We've got rather a good brand--fizzy ones. Do you a power of good,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see you keep your plate on board, he said, smiling," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What we hold we hold, he read." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I see. It's not a bad interpretation." } ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mouldy's recommending the Madeira, Uncle Bill, said his nephew;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you excuse me if I leave you? he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have to go the rounds." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How's Cecily, Uncle Bill? asked James." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Which reminds me, he added," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I heard from Armitage, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Did you by any chance meet his companion on th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the former," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can play bridge in London, replied his guest, rising." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Jim, I think I'd like to take this opportunity of paying a visit to the Gunroom. When you are my age you'll ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Kedgeree, said James," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you sit down, sir? asked one, drawing forward the battered wicker arm-chair." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all right as long as you don't lean back--but if you do we must prop it against the table." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Won't you ha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't know if you like watching a bit of juggling, he said shyly, and began to throw into the air and catch his miscellany, while the trumpet of the gramophone proclaimed that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What there was, was Good," }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Flagship's barge has called for you, sir," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have to thank you all for a very delightful quarter of an hour," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Phew! he said when the door had closed behind the visitors." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who was that old comic? I didn't catch his name." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sir William Thorogood, replied another." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harcourt, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've only just read my sister's letter, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She seemed rather puzzled..." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no ... none at all." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Artful Dodger," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morning, Pills! he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's called away: won't be long now. He wiped his mouth and came across the deck to where the other was standing." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fine morning for a pull, he observed, throwing h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, then, said a loud and cheerful voice at their elbows," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A tall, athletic figure in football shorts and swathed about with many sweaters, with a bright red cushion under his arm, stood gazing in the direction of the lower boom." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I go away pulling, said the First Lieutenant, apparently addressing a watchful-eyed gull volplaning past with outstretched wings," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's Tweedledee's fault, protested the coxswain bitterly." }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now then, said the Young Doctor," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm going bow, said the Engineer Lieutenant." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I pulled bow at Keyham for two years, and in China----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you stand th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We're awa', said the India-rubber Man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My oar's got a kink!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oars! said the coxswain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, he said grimly, with the air of a man who had reached the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a cheerful-looking lot to start out with to win the cup back! was his comment." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oars ready! 'Way together!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Glass 'igh an' steady, he announced, helping himself to sausage and mashed potatoes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We'll 'ave it calm till mebbe five o'clock, then it'll blow from the south'ard. That's down the course. But we won't 'ave no rain to-day." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Raggie," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "bellowed a raucous voice." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up a little, number seven!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goo-o-o! whispered one of the watching men." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've got 'em! he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've got 'em cold. Steady does it! Quicken a fraction, Number One. Stick it, Bow, stick it, lad!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand by! he croaked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, all together--_spurt!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which is it, he asked," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't read 'em, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Which is it? Translate, someone, for pity's sake." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shake, Pills," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nobby Clark--'im as jumped overboard in the Bandsmen's Race" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny-party in the stern, composed of a clown, a nigger and a stout seaman in female attire, added their exhortations to the" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chief ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's what I likes about '_im_, whispered a bearded seaman hoarsely, as they swung off on their new course." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll pick up the trawler outside, said the Lieutenant-Commander, folding up the chart and sticking it into the breast of his monkey-jacket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Deep water out there, and we can play about." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank you, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's just what I want to do--play about!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The other experts are all in the trawler, with the apparatus, supplemented the Lieutenant-Commander." }, { "from": "gpt"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah! said the Lieutenant-Commander," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You never know what the hell they'll do next, explained the Lieutenant with the shadow of his eyelashes on his cheek-bone." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's the trouble. 'They knows n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Says, 'Will Sir William Thor-r-ogood come aboar-r-d, sir? If so, he'll send a boat.'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reply, 'Yes. Please send boat.'" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Pleased to meet you, sir, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've been lookin' at it, admitted the big man non-committally." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It sounds like a cinch, but I understand it ain't perfect yet?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not by what you might call a long chalk," }, { "from": "g...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gardez-vous, Old Sport!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's French, ain't it? said the Submarine Hunter." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't speak the lingo." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's a challenge, he said." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That'll do, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He glanced at the sun overhead." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Bit early, yet awhile," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There we are, said the Captain cheerfully," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He led the way forward to a folding table between the polished mahogany bunks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fried chops, ain't it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Not much of a library, I'm afraid, said the host, seating himself." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not much of a reader myself. The Sub's the bookworm of this boat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some months ago, continued his Captain, speaking with his mouth full," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he jerked his head upwards and to the South East." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were sitting on the bottom waiting for it to get dark before we came...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Baskets, I think--jettison of sorts. I'm going to get amongst it and go down with the tide, keeping the periscope hidden: it's an old dodge. You can just see the smoke of Gedge's bus coming over the horizon. We'll give him a little game of Peep-bo!" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How's the time?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He ought to have started the apparatus, said Sir William, standing, watch in hand, by the compass." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's he doing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Legging it to th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do I understand----" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Stand by the tubes!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fritz must be in a tearing hurry to get home, commented the First Lieutenant." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "P'raps they've all got plague ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fire!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pretty shot," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eh! he said soberly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I ask for no other when my hour strikes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Maybe juist yeer hands are clean," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here comes Gedge, observed the Lieutenant-Commander, speaking for the first time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Translate, said Sir William. The Lieutenant-Commander coughed apologetically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's peevish, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Thought it was us blowing up at first. Wants to know why we wasted a torpedo: thinks he co...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, Old Thing... that spanned the years at a single leap; Submarine laughed across the room at Seaplane-carrier; Mine-sweeper and Mine-layer shared a plate of sandwiches with a couple of Sloops and discussed the boxing; but they were no more than a leavening amid the throng o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the Flying Man was saying as he stirred his tea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nice little thing ... married, is she? Well, well..." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're a nice pair, said the Commander, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As a matter of fact we caught the Turk who laid most of the mines in the Tigris. He conned us up the river--we put him in a basket and slung him on the bowsprit: just in case he got careless, what? ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There will be an exhibition bout n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lieutenant Adams, Welter-weight Champion of the Navy, and Seaman Hands, ex-Middle-weight Champion of England, have kindly consented to give an exhibition of sparring," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Course 'e won't! replied a companion, expelling a cloud of tobacco smoke between his lips." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "he added in awed tones." }, { "from": "human", "value": "That one 'ud kill a donkey if 'e started 'ittin'." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Final of the Junior Officers' Light-weights! he announced." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Midshipman Harcourt on the left--green; Midshipman Mordaunt on my right--red," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Seconds out of the ring!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good fight, eh? he said, smiling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Harcourt ought to win, of course, but Mordaunt's fighting like a young tiger. He's no boxer, either. I'm bothered if I know how he got into the finals." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guts!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Harcourt ought to win, you know, said Thorogood again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's just as fit and a better boxer. But he seems to be tiring.... He had a pretty tough time in the heats, I fancy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Seconds out of the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Red wins!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a good 'un, Billy, he said faintly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My--head's--still singing ... like a top! And--I taught it to you! ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, he ejaculated impatiently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hop in! We've got to get back and be hoisted in. Who won the Light-weights by the same token?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Billy did," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why are we in such a hurry? queried Harcourt." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are we going out?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "At least a signal has just come through ordering us to raise steam for...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'you mean the whole Fleet, or only just us?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The whole Fleet, replied Morton, staring ahead between the twin funnels of his boat." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose it's the usual weary stunt; go out and steam about ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Enormous, certain, slow...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SWEETHEARTS AND WIVES" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Would it be to-day?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It might be to-day, he sang." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It might, it might, it might--or it mightn't!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you Mrs. Standish?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, she said, and glanced half-expectantly up and down the platform." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hoped my husband would be here ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm afraid his squ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, she said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We belong to the same squadron, she said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad we've met now, because directly our husbands' ships come in we shall never see each other! She turned to Etta Clavering." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's like that up h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have only just come North, haven't you? she asked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The latest recruit to our army of--waiters, I was going to say, but it sounds silly. Waitresses hardly seems right either, does it? Anyhow, I hope you won't have to wait for very lo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, said her benefactress," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mrs. Pat." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My dear, gasped Mrs. Cavendish," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But---- she said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Does that mean that our squadron is coming in?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course it does, silly! Get your hat quick, and w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's nothing in sight," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, said the other," }, { "from": "human", "value": "She put her elbows on her knees and rested her face in the cup of her two hands." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You haven't got used ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps they won't be in till after tea, suggested Betty." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps the fog has delayed them." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Perhaps," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's getting chilly, said the elder girl at length. She rose to her feet with a little involuntary shiver, and stood for a moment staring out towards the sea." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder... she began, and her voice trailed off into silence. Betty began sl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo, James, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your afternoon watch? Well, here you are." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Divisions in line ahead, columns disposed abeam, course S.E. Speed, 15 knots. Glass low and steady. The Cruisers are ahead the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Pilot, said the departing Officer of the Forenoon Watch," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "James is thirsting for news of the enemy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Optimist! replied the Navigator composedly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "News,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Only one of the Huns' floating mines, said the Navigator." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She exploded it with her 8-pounder. Pretty shot." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said Tweedledee," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't stay here ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rather interesting," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They have probably caught a raiding party in the mist, sir," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's too much to hope that their main fleet's out," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Their main fleet'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you take on now? he asked in a low voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If the balloon's really going up this time I'd better get along to my battery." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Buck up, James, he shouted merrily." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Might as well," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! laughed the A.P." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Having a last look at the old home, James?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just taking in provisions in case I have to spend the week-end on a raft. What's your action station?" }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're out, lads! he said grimly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Give 'em hell, this time. Clear away and close up round your guns--smartly then, my hearties!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Put your head down here, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There was a queer ring of exultation in his voice." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Guns!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thank God I've lived to hear that noise!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Crying!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thought I'd better bring him along, he gasped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Turret's knocked to hell.... He's still alive, but he's broken all to little bits inside ... I can feel him... Morton, snottie of my turret ..." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bloody 'Uns.... Strictly speakin', we did ought to fight 'em.... Best look t'other way, lads!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and added," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hullo! he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He peered round the table." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My word! he exclaimed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hot tea! Who made it? The galley's a heap of wreckage. He poured himself out a cup...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tweedledee's killed, he said dully." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead... He resumed his thoughtful walk and a moment later repeated the last word in a low voice, reflectively." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dead ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Have you heard? she said, and thrust the sheet under Betty's eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's been a big action.... Our losses are published, but no details." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Names? cried Betty." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's just awa' to Mrs. Thatcher, west yonder. Will ye no' step inside and bide a wee? She'll no' be long, a'm thinkin'." } ]