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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Stand still!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A close one, old timer! he muttered to the horse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now what was _he_ doin' there? And how much will he count?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why don't I think it's wrong to steal?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ain't ... for us...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I've read that it is, she protested, scowling into the darkness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I read it in a b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why'm I so different from other folks? Maybe that's why I never had no friends...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It ain't wrong for you to steal from her," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, it can't be. I hate her.... I like to steal from her. But why ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing about what you have been matters with me, but there's one thing I want to ask you." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And that?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "What was this Hilton to you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There was a time, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you understand that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I just thought maybe you'd like him out of the country." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can never be a dog in the manger, she replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What is good about this life I would share with my worst enemy, and gladly, because at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This ain't any compliment to her, wonderin' like this. It's her way and she sure's got a right to it!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're early, he muttered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hadn't figured they'd leave before the end of the week.... That's bad...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's McKee, Two-Bits said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That's Webb's gray horse." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sam, if it was anybody else I'd been shootin' long ago. I ain't got the heart to kill you. You recollect, don't you, what I told you and your crowd about driftin' into our territory?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This ain't your range, McKee grumbled." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No need to argue, Beck replied, tolerance replaced by a snap in his tone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You drag it for your own range, McKee, and don't you stop to look back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An' if my brother was here he'd tell you about a woman that looked back an' turned to salt, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But if you turn an' look back I'll bet two-bits you turn to somethin' worse!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, they're stringin' up fast, --staring out on the desert where the steers slowly ate their way to the mouth of the Hole." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Funny they're out of water so soon. If they get up in here, --gesturing back through the Gap,--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ho, I'm a jolly _cow_boy, from Texas now I _hail!_ Give me my quirt and _po-o_-ony, I'm ready for the _trail_; I love the rolling _prai_ries, they're free from care an' _strife!_ Behind a herd of _long_horns I'll journey all my _life!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, I'm a Texas _cow_boy, lighthearted, brave an' _free_, To roam the wide _prai_rie is always joy to _me_. My trusty little _po-o_-ony is my companion _true_ O'er creeks an' hills an' _riv_ers he's sure to pull me _through!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I got him, he muttered feverishly as he covered the last distance at a run." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, by God, I'll get-- ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is this, my friend? I'm only a horse and I don't understand; if I knew how to help you I would. Won't you tell me what to do? I'm waiting here just for that; to help you. But I'm only a horse..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're alive; you're alive! You _can_ move after all; you _can_ move! Let me help! Oh, pardner, let me help you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Keep on! he seemed to say." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Keep it up! I'm here; we'll get there somehow!" }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hang it all, he might have thought." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here I thought you were going to make it and you can't! I _wish_ I knew how to help!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After a while ... a week or so, I can ... get hold of that ... mebby," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'd like to see somethin' else besides this. I'd like to have some of the chances other gals have. I'd give anything for a chance to be somebody!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd give anything to give you a chance, Bobby," }, { "from": "human", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see that I came west, guided by something bigger than my own reason, directed by something that regulates the loves of men to bring them to a good end?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never thought I'd be loved. I never thought you cared for me that-a way....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But this ... it's different. It ain't like that. This is somethin' ... I don't know...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One of the reasons that has made me love you has been your devotion to your father. Another was your distrust. You never did trust me at first. I felt that you were keeping me off, holding yourself away from me, Bobby. I wanted to tell you all this long ago, --which was the trut...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Because I love you, Bobby! Will you come?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And I'll be your wife and you won't be ashamed of me ... ever?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Never!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' Alf'll come to see us whenever h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One moment! Just one moment!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "One moment of your time to bring to your attention this article, known from coast to coast, indispensable to any man, woman or child, which we are introducing for the purposes of further advertising at a trifling price, which--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Who the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can it be, he asked absently," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He spoiled it for a while, Bobby, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's ride back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's got into him?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's changed in the last day or two. Wouldn't think he was the same man, Webb went on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you think there's a chance...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somethin's got into him all right, but it ain't anything to hurt us. He's changed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Somethin's changed him again, though ..." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've rubbed it into him pretty strong yourself, Webb," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Different reason. Webb waxed philosophical." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With th' tank gone that cuts down just so much on their range, Webb said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You don't want to be too sure that their stuff won't get into the Hole," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I s'pose they put a man in the Gap to go to s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never you mind what's in Sam's head. You've been figurin' I'm a helpless sort of waddie for a long time but I guess you'll think different when you find out some things I know!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sure you didn't leave anything by the tank that'd give us away?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Think I'm simple minded?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's a damn good thing not to be. That's th' first place they'll ride when th' round-up starts an' as ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, Sam, the chances are that he'll go to the tank alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How'd you know I was thinkin' _that?_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WORK AMONG THE HEATHEN" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll be joinin' them tonight or in the morning, Beck told Jane as the cavalcade disappeared down creek." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm glad there are things to hold me here a few hours longer because I'll be gone a long time an' I'm jealous of the days I have to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come to ask for aid, ma'am, in what might be termed work among the heathen, though, it is in a sense the task of a home missionary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Reverend, in her crisp manner--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm interested." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An unholy love is being hidden in the solitudes of these hills, a man who is at heart a serpent seeks to corrupt the white soul of a child. You possess a knowledge of this man which may hold the only hope of salvation for the innocent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are the only individual who stands between Dick Hilton and the ruin of Bobby Cole!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean that he ..." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I beg of you, ma'am, to join me in this holy cause and dissuade him from his black purpose, if not by an appeal to honor, then by an appeal to his shame." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You mean that he has been making ... making love to this girl? And that you think ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why ... I don't know what I could say ... what I could do." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor I. But you know Hilton; you know the girl; I have made you familiar with the situation. I rely on your resourcefulness. May I bring him to you?" }, { "from": "human"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can get down and open the gate," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now what?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now I'll finish my errand by escorting you to the owner of this establishment." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "In accordance with your orders, ma'am, I persuaded this gentleman to call, said Beal, almost humbly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'll feed his horse and return later." }, { "from": "gpt", "valu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rather different from our last meeting, he said testily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then you were concerned with my going; now you seem determined to have me here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's not discuss the past, Dick. I called you here fo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now she is facing loss of the biggest thing she possesses: the loss of her belief in herself, for you will destroy that just as surely as you force her to listen to your ... to what I suppose you still call your love-making." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You use...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dick! Dick! For the sake of what you once were, for the sake of what you still can be, go away! If you won't go for the sake of the girl, go for your own salvation!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not what you think, he protested feebly, without looking at her." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see that you're playing with something as delicate as a mountain flower? Don't you see you will crush it? Because this girl is strong of body and thoroughly able to contend for her own position with muscles and weapons, don't think that her heart can be treated roughly...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm asking it of you. Perhaps I have little right to make any requests of you but in the name of the love you say you once bore for me try to look into my, a woman's heart, and see what this thing means. I'm not trying to make it difficult for you; I'm not trying to interfere an...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have said that you loved me, Dick. Do this for me in the name of that love! I am asking it with a sincerity that was never in any other request I have made of you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You talk of the man I once was. Well, if I've changed in your eyes, it is not my fault; it's yours, Jane Hunter, yours! You'd drive me on, lead me on, and when finally cornered you'd be perfectly frank to tell me that you'd only toyed with me, that you tolerated me because you t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose this is part of your plan! he snapped." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You found out that it's no use to wheedle me, so you've had your gun-man come to drive me off as he brought me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dick, don't be silly! You're a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How else do you think he brought me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I sent Mr. Beal for you, yes, but I said nothing about using force to bring you. I wouldn't do that. I'm sure there is some mistake." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, ma'am, I'm sure ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the last time I've been made a fool of!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nothing more, unless you may succeed in ridding yourself of your enemies." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do you think that would have an effect on Bobby Cole?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You and she have something in common: an enemy." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it, brother? Azariah asked gently, turning Two-Bits over and supporting his head." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tell us. You're not done for. It's ripped your back open, but that's all. Who was it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "From behind, he...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It looks like ... a lot of trouble, ma'am...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's serious, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's enough of your stock down here to ruin you, ma'am, unless we get 'em out to water." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let's take them out, then!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It'll be another day before we can get the boys back to help get 'em out and it looks like a heavy loss at best unless we get water. There's only one way to get it and that's to persuade Cole or his daughter that we'd ought to have it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I've come to see you again, Jane said in brief preface." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This time it is an urgent matter. She dismounted and faced the other girl." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My cattle are here and they need drink very badly. You have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is your memory so bad that you don't recollect what I told you before? she asked slowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told you once to keep away from us; I tell you that again. This is our range now; your stock ain't got any rights here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am willing to pay. This means very much to me. Won't you name a price, give me water? I am asking it as a favor and will be willing to pay for that favor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Favor!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Favor! You're a sweet one t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, he's told me everything, from th' first! You got him to follow you out here, you got mad at him and threw him out of your house once. Now you want him back. You want him back. I suppose while he, --tilting her head toward Tom--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'd take this claim, if you could, when you've got more land than anybody around here. You'd take my man when you've got lots of others yourself. You _must_ have lots like you got lots of other things. Maybe you think that by takin' him you can drive me out and get the claim t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "An' now you come, askin' favors. Favors from me! Why, all I'll do for you is to run you out of this country. I've heard what they call me here: the catamount. I'll show you how the catamount can scratch and bite!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You carry that idea home with you an' you carry this ... as first payment, to bind the bargain!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That'll do! in a strange, unnatural voice, as though his throat were dry. She heard the Catamount's contemptuous sniff and her hard," }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I was going to send one of you men to bring a dozen of the boys from the wagon to help save this stuff, if we can, but I've changed my mind, --with a bitter significance which they did not catch." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm goin' myself. Curtis, you're in char...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You did send for him, I take it? You didn't deny that." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, I sent for him, she managed to say," }, { "from": "human", "value": "That's all that's necessary then," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am terribly hurt but in a way it is of my own doing. I have just one thing to request: Ask the Reverend how Dick Hilton came to be here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn an outfit like that!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's goin' to be hell a-poppin' here, commented one of the men." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They're waitin' for trouble an' you can't prevent 'em havin' it--" }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll protect my property! You can protect yourn if you will. Th' next critter that breaks my fence gits lead in his carcass!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We'll bunch 'em so we can make a show at holdin' 'em tonight, Curtis said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That'll save time in th' mornin' ... an' we'll need all our time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fear, brother, that by another day there'll be little strength in those bodies to get 'em up to open water," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If that old cuss 'uld let 'em water once it'd be a cinch, but he's a bad _hombre_; he won't. There's something back of this, R...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, another watcher!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the way, brother, if these were your cattle how many head would you give just to get them to water tonight?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'd give several, Curtis answered bitterly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I'd give a good many and look a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What th' hell?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I found it! cried the Reverend in exultation, holding up a fountain pen." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Must have dropped out when I took off my coat--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But look wha...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, you'll be run out of this country like a snake 'uld be chased out of a cabin! Remember that!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A woman possessed of the devil!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yeah. Or three or four," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yesterday I sought to save her soul and tomorrow I must seek to save my own skin!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dragged it for the ranch!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Turn back! one voice in his heart commanded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Seek her out and question and question until you know why; if it is the worst, if she has been hiding a secret affection from you, beg her to turn from it, to come to you; offer her your all,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What? it asked," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's he doin'?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Turnin' in." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's funny ... damned funny, Jim." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's like a man that's _through_. Didn't appear to have any real interest in the work...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, he ain't afraid of men. There ain't bad men enough in this country to drive Tom Beck out.... But women.... They'll put a crimp in th' best of us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I expect you can fix up the basin with some concrete so it'll hold next winter," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's likely, the other responded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmy, you're goin' to lead this round-up for a while ... mebby for good." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, Tom?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm leavin' here an' mebby I won't be back." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom; Tom!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bone dry!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, he said, his panting becoming less noticeable," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I come out here to kill you, Beck; that's what I'm goin' to do next." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right here, Sam? You going to kill me right here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Right here, you--! He spat out the unforgiveable epithet with a curl to his lip. For once he had this man where he wanted him; Beck's life was in his hands ... right in his _palm_...." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What you goin' to kill me with, Sam?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "With your own gun, by God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "With my own gun!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "When you goin' to do this killing, Sam?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Now! he cried, shaken by hate." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Now, by God!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Right now, Sam?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ain't goin' to kill me right off, are you Sam?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, you ain't going to kill me now, Sam. You ain't got the guts!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You wouldn't kill anybody, McKee," } ]