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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ain't just that kind of a man. If you'd been goin' to kill me you'd have done it right off. You wouldn't have waited, like you're waitin' now.... You missed out on your intentions, Sam, when you didn't do it _pronto_." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're afraid of me, Sam." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Goin' to leave me, Sam?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll see what I'm goin' to do? McKee raved, wheeling, suddenly articulate." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You'll see what'll happen to you, you--! What's already happened is only a starter. I didn...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That your pet buzzard, Sam? he asked once, squinting upward at the wheeling scavenger." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Somebody said you kept one ... to pick up after you...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You wait! You'll have less to say after a while,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't guess they're comin' today, Sam. Maybe you misunderstood 'em." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sure is too bad to have your plans all go to hell, isn't it, Sam?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You'd ought to have killed me, Sam. That'd surprised 'em for sure!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You reckon somebody's goin' to steal me? Beck asked, forcing his voice to be steady." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't realize I was valuable enough to be close herded by a two-gun man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I'm goin' to sleep right here,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I sure am an undesirable," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think you ought to start out an' ride after 'em, Sam, Beck advised." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do they _sabe_ this country? You better go; they might get strayed. I'll be here. I figure on stayin' quite a time. I.... Honest, Sam, I've had a hell of a good time ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ain't figuring on walkin' your boots out, are you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Never you mind, you--!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're a fool! she cried lowly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A fool!... False pride has taken two days out of your life ... two precious days!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He ain't here, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not here?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. He left yesterday. He told me to head this ride. He--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And where did he go?" }, { "from": "human", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He left me in charge an' said I was to take orders from you. He ain't showed up since and Lord knows where he'd go except out of the country." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That cannot _be!_" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They want you in the Hole, ma'am," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What's the trouble?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "They've got Cole down there with a lot of your calves an' he's put his brand on 'em. Webb's there, too, an' Hepburn. They're holdin' 'em ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They're waitin' for you, straight across there, ma'am." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I seen two men in th' Gap, he said to Webb." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They said...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, get down an' set," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess I'll go on." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We sent for you, ma'am, because we stumbled onto somethin' that looks bad ... for somebody." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's been enough goin' on recent, ma'am, to let everybody know that something was pretty wrong. Mebby we've run onto the answer today. That's why we sent for you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I know this ain't a pleasant task for a woman, but it seems like somethin' you've got to face ... if you're goin' to stay here. I guess you understand that, ma'am." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seemed there wasn't any way out of it, but to turn the matter over to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want the story from the beginning. Jim Black, will you tell what you know?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jimmy told you how I happened here. This steer, ma'am, cut across the flat an' I followed. I heard bawlin' over this way an', naturally, was surprised. Pulled up my hoss an' rode over. There was a fire in that gulch, an' it'd just been scattered. A man had been kneelin' down by ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's unmistakable, she said lowly as she straightened." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Part of that brand healed months ago; the rest is fresh." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oliver, what did you do?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's just as well, --dryly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This ain't a matter that affects any one of us. It's for everybody in th' country to consider." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think all that's necessary is to talk to Mr. Cole," }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who built this pen?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Did you ever see it before?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, I--well, I did _see_ it, but I don't know nothin' about it." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hasn't someone been working over my brand?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know ... I dunno nothin' about it...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "How do you suppose these calves come to be here? My calves, with your brand on them?" }, { "fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at me, Cole! she cried and her body trembled. Her tone was compelling, she experienced a sensation of mounting power, felt that she was dominating and without looking she knew that the men before her stirred, impressed by her rising confidence." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I didn't make you out, Tom." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you happen to come to this country, Cole?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why, I heered about this place. Good feed an' water an' a place to settle. So I just come; that's all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How did you hear about it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "A feller told me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've been in jail once? For stealing cattle?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I didn't steal.... They said I did. They didn't want me around. They're like all you big outfits; they don't want me ... they don't want me...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Cole, did you steal my calves?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Did you steal my calves?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, I don't want to go to jail! he said and tears streamed down his seamed cheeks." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I took 'em ... but I'm a poor man ... a poor man...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's your verdict, Miss Hunter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have heard it, she said gently." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You heard it from his lips." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Then I guess there's nothin' to do, but to go through with this ourselves. The old cattle man spoke slowly and rather heavily." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Cole, there's a way of treatin' thieves in this country that's gone out of fashion in recent years; we ain't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is a matter for all of us, but by common consent I was selected to judge this man. He has admitted his guilt after an opportunity to protest his innocence. Now you must let me pass sentence...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sentence, ma'am? Riley asked." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mercy is the most holy thing in human relations. It is a blessing not only to the man who receives it, but to the man that gives!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you fear him? Do you young, strong men fear this man?... No, you don't! No more than I. We have seen him humbled; we have heard him plead. Giving him his liberty will cost us nothing. I will go so far as to promise you that he will never steal from us again ... if we do this ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't want you to think that I am through ... not now. There has been stealing, but that has been only a part of the trouble. There have been other things, things which this man who we know has stolen would not do. Let us not be satisfied with cutting off the top of this weed ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This thievery was only a symptom, only an indication of what has transpired, she went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Just the outward evidence of those desires and impulses which have turned into chaos the peace of this beautiful country. Into that we must inquir...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Will you come up here and talk to me?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well now, Miss Hunter, don't you think--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think many things, Mr. Hepburn. My purpose is either to justify or to convince myself that I think wrongly. Wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want you to understand me ... without any more delay. You and I came into this country at about the same time. Where we should have been friends from the first we have been enemies; it even came to such a pass that you promised to drive me from the country." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But there are things with which you can help me. I am sure. There are so many things that we have in common. You see, you and I are very much alike." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Alike?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The thing that you want most of all...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was one man I used to know who was supposed to give me all the respect that a man could give a woman: he said that he loved me. That man, --there was a quick movement in the group which she ignored--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He follered you out here to .....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I knew that you wanted the respect of men. I knew that about all you had in life was your self respect. I knew that the same man who had made love to me and who had not meant it, was making love to you and not meaning it. I called him to see me and tried to talk him out of it, b...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He did lie to me! she panted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He did.... I hated you because I thought you had friends an' folks that respected you. He lied an' it made me hate you worse...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, miss, I've acted so bad to y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hepburn, you're first!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not a move!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Swing back there, you men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go on," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You're first," }, { "from": "human", "value": "You planned to steal the HC blind, as soon as th' old owner died. You didn't have th' nerve to do it like I'd 've done it. You sent for us, because you knowed Alf had thi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You dynamited Cathedral Tank to spoil that range. Then somebody shot Two-Bits an' you planned with us not to let her have water, knowin' her cattle would perish. I was glad enough to keep 'em from water then because I thought ... I thought she wasn't ... what she is." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I heard you talkin' nights in our place. I watched you ridin' when you didn't know I was around. I listened an' remembered. I was one of you, but I didn't trust you. I wanted to steal from Miss Hunter. I wanted to drive her out because ... because I didn't know anybody could be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Even us! Why, we never had any right on this claim. Alf's used his homestead rights before, under another name. This water don't belong to us. Not by rights. It's all open range! That's what we was: t' worst nest of outlaws that ever got together in these hills!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That ain't all! I've got to go through with it! I've finished with the rest an' now it's you.... Hilton!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was always talkin' Sam McKee, there, up to kill Beck. It's likely McKee shot Two-Bits--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He didn't! I didn't do it!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "An' he was as slick with me as he was with them, with his lies about bein...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jane!... Jane!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You came back to me, Tom," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Back, he answered...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I can't ever come back to ... you...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hold up! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't one of you move! Jimmy, take two men to the Gap. Hold everybody in this Hole until we can get the sheriff, this'll be a clean-up for--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom! Oliver! Hold these men. I'll bring the sheriff! You can spare me and only me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You've got to get out of this, ma'am, Beck cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There'll be hell to pay before mornin'. There's nothing they won't do now." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom! You came!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Go; go! Take me after him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Dead," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dead! echoed Jane." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Dick killed him! Oh ... beastly!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You've got to get out, Beck said lowly, lifting her from her knees beside the dead rider."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up and get out!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's only one of 'em ahead of you. He's bound only to make his get-away.... An' the Catamount, she'll clear your way if he does turn back!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It seems my place to stay! sh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Get up here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom! It's good to have you!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be good to die for you!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no! --sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not that, Tom! Live for me ... live for me!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You keep your body behind mine ... always ... until we get to the top...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Tom! --in alarm." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're hit.... Oh, Tom! She shook him, hitching herself about that she might see his face." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fireflies! Beck muttered as he looked down again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lightnin' bugs let loose from hell!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's nothin', ... my life, he replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all I could do ... for doubtin' you. I couldn't ask you to ... love me.... I could die for you ... that's all, ma'am...." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, Tom! Keep your head; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn you, Beck! Damn you, you've ruined me; you drove me to this.... Now, take th--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Damn your--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, they got him! Bobby sobbed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They got him...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look! --starting up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He's movin' his foot. It didn't get his spine; it didn't get his spine...." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My horse is fresh. I'm goin' to your ranch for help. He ain't goin' to die, ma'am.... I promise you that.... He ain't goin' to die!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So you think there _is_ a hell, Tommy?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yeah. I know there's a hell, Two-Bits." }, { "from": "human", "value": "My brother always said there was. He said it was an awful place, Tommy. I'll bet two bits th' old Devil was sorry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But, shucks, Tommy, I hate to think of 'em bein' blistered all th' time!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a hell, though, Tommy. It's when a man lets the weakness in him run off with what strength he has, when he don't trust those who deserve to be trusted, whe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look at how she treated Cole. Why, anybody else 'd run him off! 'Stead of that she gets Bobby Cole to file on that claim an' helps 'em to build a good house an' wants 'em to stay. You can bet your life that H C cattle'll get water there now. That catamount ... hell, she'd _carry...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She's comin' up th' road.... An' Mister Two-Bits Beal, _esquire_, is goin' to drift out of here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, the doctor's been here!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, and he's rolled the old carcass over," }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's so good to look into your eyes again," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You mustn't look like that! he said, turning his face from her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's more than I've deserved, it's more than I have a right to!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Look at me, Tom Beck!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I needed your help, Tom! I shall always need you near me!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nobody would agree with you, he protested." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You're the most capable man in the country. You sure can look out for yourself." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you see what a wrong that would be! Don't you see that?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And now to carry this breach from the past into the future.... Don't you see what a wrong that would be? Don't you see how you would be harming yourself? You, who wanted to die for me, would be refusing to live for me! And I who need you would walk alone.... Don't you see what a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want you, Jane!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say! Now that you've done me the honor to give me a second chance at lovin' you, there's somethin' I want to ask." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ask it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What's in that locket?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That is the last straw," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The one you would not draw that day, which seems so long ago!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "You kept it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I drew the last straw that day. I drew the responsibility of keeping the HC on its feet. I feel that I have helped to do that...." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have." }, { "from": "human", "value": "And I have made you love me, Tom.... _That_ is the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say, I wonder if the Reverend was a regular preacher?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why? He was a doer of good works. Why consider his actual standing?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yeah. But I mean, could he marry folks, do you s'pose?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If he could he'd be glad to, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Old Put," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "How big a fleet have we there now, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Shamán say, 'Yukon Inua plenty mad.'" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beyond all thought; she is the Duchess Helen of Mortain!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Just what I said." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But you've money, sir, for I marked you squandering it on the train," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think it's just horrid! said Kristy, standing before the window, peering out into a world of drizzling rain." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Every single thing is ready and every girl promised to come, and now it has to go and rain; 'n' I believe it'll rain a week, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I wish it would never rain another drop; it's always spoiling things!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Kristy, said her mother quietly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What about her?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why, she had a disappointment...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll tell you, said Bessie at last." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can do up a nice package,--Uncle Tom taught me,--and I'll do it up, and we can take it away in the daytime; no one will know what it is, and then we can lose it somewhere." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where you going?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're going to see Lottie Hart," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Why, so am I! she exclaimed;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes," }, { "from": "human", "value": "What are you taking ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look out, Miss! you might slip and fall overboard," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can't do it here, Helen whispered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No! answered Bessie in horror;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We better go back into the cabin, she whispered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's time to get off, Miss, he said;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We don't want to get off, said Helen;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But you haven't paid you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Couldn't you drop it under one of these bushes, Helen? See; there's a lilac very thick and down to the ground." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is anybody looking?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; I don't see anybody, answered Bessie." }, { "fro...