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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nesi-tu-now Nesoo-sap umisk!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-two beaver, he challenged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Twenty-two--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let Meewe have them," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is her dog, m'sieu. It is Parka--and Dupont sells him today to show her that he is master." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wait!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "M'sieu Paquette, I ask the privilege of examining this dog that I want to buy." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See! I will play, and the woman's pet shall sing!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is Reese Beaudin--come back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oui--by the Saints, it is Reese Beaudin--Reese Beaudin come back!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reese! Reese--my sakeakun!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am Reese Beaudin. I am the Yellow-back. I have returned to meet a man you all know--Jacques Dupont. He is a monkey-man--a whipper of boys, a stealer of women, a cheat, a coward, a thing so foul the crows will not touch him when he dies--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M'sieu Dupont, you are about to avenge a great insult. It must be done fairly. If you have weapons, throw them away. I will search this--this Reese Beaudin, as he calls himself! And if there is to be a fight, let it be a good one....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A long time I have waited for this, m'sieu, said Reese, for Dupont's ears alone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Five years is a long time. And my Elise still loves me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Until I went away and met real men, I never knew what a pig of a man you were, M'sieu Dupont, he taunted amiably, as though speaking in jest to a friend." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You remind me of an aged and over-fat porcupine with his big paunch and crooked ar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah, it has come," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is the best close-in fighter in all--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I could kill you now--kill you with a single blow, said Reese Beaudin in a moment when the giant stood swaying." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am Reese Beaudin, the Yellow-back. I am Reese Beaudin, who ran away. I am Reese Beaudin,--Sergeant in His Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and in the name of the law I arrest Jacques Dupont for the murder of Francois Bedore, who was killed on his trap-line five years ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And this is your final punishment, Jacques Dupont--to be hanged by the neck until you are dead. For Bedore was not dead when Elise's father left him after their fight on the trap-line. It was you who saw the fight, and finished the killing, and laid the crime on Elise's father. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Don't come back, Blake, until you've got him, dead or alive." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Put Blake on the trail meant something, and" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He is one of our best men" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M'sieu, some day you may go after my murderer, and when you do, Francois Breault will go with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are hurt, m'sieu!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sprained my leg, he said then, remembering his old part, and replying to the questioning anxiety in her eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Dogs ran away and left me, and I got here just by chance. A little more and--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm afraid--I'll be a trouble to you, he apologized." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's not broken; but it's bad, and I won't be able to move--soon. Is Jan at home?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, m'sieu; he is away." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "M'sieu Duval--who nursed him through the smallpox? she cried, her voice trembling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M'sieu Duval--who saved my Jan's life!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes; I am John Duval, said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have prayed many times that the great God might thank you, m'sieu." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you--are Marie?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, m'sieu, I am Marie." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are in pain, m'sieu," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A little, he said, smiling at her." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Will you help me to sit up, Marie?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gawd, but won't it be a surprise for Jan? I told him that some day I'd come. I told him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Peste! but last night's storm must have hurt my eyes. The light blinds them, ma cheri. Will you put it out, and sit down near me, so that I can see you as you talk, and tell me all that has happened to Jan Thoreau since that winter three years ago?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A man was found dead on the trail yesterday, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some one killed him. He had a bullet through his lung. He was the mail-runner, Francois Breault." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Francois--Breault! he heard her breathe at last, as if she was fighting to keep something from choking her." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Francois Breault--dead--killed by someone--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are sure--it was Francois Breault?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, the mail-runner. You knew him?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ma cheri--my dear child--what makes you look like that? What has the death of Francois Breault to do with you--you and Jan?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You may tell me, ma cheri, he encouraged, barely above a whisper." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am Duval. And Jan--I love Jan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tell me, Marie." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They had a fight--here--in this cabin--three days ago, she confessed." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It must have been--the day--he was killed." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, no--it was not Jan, she moaned." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was not Jan who killed him!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hush!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was Jan, then, who killed Francois Breault!" }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes--like that--children together--we grew up, she confided." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It was down there at Wollaston Post, in the heart of the big forests, and when I was a baby it was Jan who carried me about on his shoulders. Oui, even then he played the viol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan and I were married, and on the day Jan saw the missioner--a week before we were made man and wife--Francois Beault came in from the trail to see me, and I confessed to him, and asked his forgiveness. We were alone. And he--Francois Breault--was like a madman." }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sergeant Fitzgerald!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes. Put up your gun, Corporal. Have you got Jan Thoreau?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He--is gone." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "That is lucky for us. It was the stranger's voice, fille...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "L'ange Meleese. And yet, unlike that other" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "of flesh and blood, Florence Nightingale, the story of Melisse Cummins and her work will live and die with her in that little cabin two hundred miles straight north of civilization. No, that is...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Little Garden of God." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "L'ange Meleese to let it rest with the others, where" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Red Terror" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "was more terrible for John Cummins than for his wife, for it turned out to be smallpox, and for six weeks Meleese would allow him to come no nearer than the edge of the clearing' in which the pest-ridden cabin stood. First the mother, and then the boy, she nursed back to life, l...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "came during the husband's absence, and, if they were urgent, Meleese went alone, trusting to her own splendid strength and courage. A half-breed woman came to her one day, in the dead of winter, from twenty miles across the lake. Her husband had frozen one of his feet, and the" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am a wanderer, and in wandering I have lost my name. Call me M'sieu." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am glad you have come, he said, his eyes staring wildly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I guess I am dying. Some water, please. There is a spring back of the cabin." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was one or the other. He had the best of me. I drew my revolver again--and killed him, killed Andre Beauvais, as I had killed his wife, Marie!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us bring up the dunnage from the canoe, mon pere." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I have forgotten something. I will overtake you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He made one leetle meestake, mon pere. Andre Beauvais did not die. I am Andre Beauvais." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew what life could hold for a man until I came up here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm ten years younger than I was two years ago." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've been two years in the north?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why not go the shorter way--by the Reindeer Lake water route to Prince Albert? asked Thornton." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you'll do that, I'll go with you." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Isn't it beautiful--glorious?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's wonderful! I said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You won't see this down there, Thornton!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nor hear those sounds, he replied, his hand tightenin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I told you that her husband was a scoundrel and a rake, he said gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, he was--and I was that scoundrel! I came up here for a chance of redeeming myself, and your big, glorious North has made a man of me. Will you come and meet m...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Gentlemen, he cried raucously," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My beloved Jan." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan--Jan Larose-- he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My God, don't strike now! I'm blind--blind--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't strike! he almost shrieked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother of Heaven--my eyes are burned out-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, O'Grady, he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "My legs are broken, I guess, and I can't move. It's sure death to stay here another minute. You can get away. Follow the wall--to your right. The slope is still free of fire, and--and--" }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan! Jan Larose!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, Jan, he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'm blind an' I won't see any more, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Left --" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "--" }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We've got just one chance, Clarry. I can't see any more. Keep straight ahead--and run for it, and may the good God help us now!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, I'm blind--stone blind!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You're not blind--not for good--O'Grady, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I've seen men like you before--twice. You--you'll get well. O'Grady--Clarry O'Grady--let's shake! I'm a brother to you from this day on. And I'm glad--glad--that Marie loves a man like y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Marie--man--why--she HATES me! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's you--YOU--Jan Larose, that she loves! I went there with a broken leg, an' I fell in love with her. But she wouldn't so much as let me touch her hand, an' she talked of you--always--always--u...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a man in a canoe! he cried," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He sees us! O'Grady--" }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's coming, O'Grady. And it looks--it looks like a canoe we both know. We'll go back to her cabin together, O'Grady. And when we're ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't throw me off like that, Jan Larose, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We're pardners!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ugh! he shivered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen to that beastly wind! It means three days of storm." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I like storms--when you're inside, an' close to a stove, replied Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Makes me feel sort of--safe." }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's something in that, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "This storm ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's her!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "She had it taken that way just for me, explained Billy, with the enthusiasm of a boy in his voice." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "She's always wore her hair in curls--an' a braid--for me, when we're home. I love it that way. Guess I may be silly but I'll tell you why...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Of course, I can't expect you to have any sympathy for this other business, Brokaw, he went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sympathy isn't in your line, an' you wouldn't be the big man you are in the service if you had it. But I'd like to know what YOU would have ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And I suppose you think THIS is hard, too, he added." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I guess you'd do it if you were me. Ten years of this sort of work learns you not to take chances. If you want anything in the night just whistle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind that, he shouted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The shack's built of pitch cedar. We've got to get out!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I can't--find--the key-- he gasped chokingly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Here grab hold of...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ought to know this country, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What'll we do?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "The nearest post is sixty miles from here," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I know that, replied Brokaw." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is going to be a big sight easier than hanging, or going to jail for half my life, Brokaw--an' you don't think I'm going to be fool enough to miss the chance, do you? It ain't hard to die of cold. I've almost been there once or twice. I told you last night why I couldn't gi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It must be getting colder, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Look at that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thoreau lives on this creek, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How much farther is it?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Fifteen or sixteen miles, replied Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You'll last just about five, Brokaw. I won't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Follow that creek--four miles--and you'll come to Indian Joe's shack," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And a mile is just about our limit" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Just about--your's, replied Billy." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I can't ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ah!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don't get nervous, warned Billy." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It's the only one." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There's a birch tree, he cried." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Hold it--while ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If we had a stone, an' a piece of paper--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There's a little gun-file in the pocket the match came from, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had it mending a trapchain. You can scratch the match on that." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's all up to her, Brokaw, Billy said gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I told you that last night. It was she who woke me up before the fire got us. If you ever prayed--pray a little now. FOR SHE'S GOING TO STRIKE THAT MATCH!" }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The match--went--out--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It ees not so much--What you call heem?--leegend, thees honor of the Beeg Snows!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Leegend is lie! Thees is truth!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It ees truth--thees honor of the Beeg Snows!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It ees truth, I swear, by dam'--thees honor of what he calls the 'Beeg Snows!'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Big Snows, as the Englishman had said, in which Jan and all his people had come very close to the things which God created. Without the steely gray flash of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Snow." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Snow that Jan went to the woman's cabin. He tapped upon her door with the timidity of a child, and when she opened it, her great eyes glowing at him in wild questioning, her face white with a terrible fear, there was a chill at his heart which choked back what he had come t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mees Cummin, I go hunt for heem! he cried." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I go hunt for heem--an' fin' heem!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hunt for heem!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Storm" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Snows" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God bless you forever, Jan! You have done the best you could!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Snows," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I want to tell you something, Jan, she said softly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have been thinking about it for a long time. I must find some work to do. I must do something--to earn--money." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Work!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "May God bless you for all you have done, Jan, and may God bless the others! I want you to take that word to them from me. But he will never come back, Jan--never. Tell the men that I love them as brothers, and always shall love them, but now that I know he is dead I can no longe...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I fin' heem, Mees Cummins--I fin' heem nint' miles back in Cree wigwam--with broke leg. He come home soon--he sen' great love--an' THESE!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ah, the Great God! cried Jan's tortured soul when it was all over." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thees is not the honor of the Beeg Snows! he whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Come." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Beeg Snow," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Jan, she panted," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Jan--you have lied to me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, me lie!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You--you lied to me!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes--me--lie--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Yes--Mees Cummins--me lie--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Bless you, dear Jan, and may God bless you evermore! For you have been good to me, Jan--so good--to me--" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Be a good baby, be a good baby." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mebby she'll come back some day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You will stay here--to-night?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Me go back--now," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The good God bless you, and keep you, and care for you evermore, Jan, she whispered." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Some day we will meet again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was mighty good of you to come up, Severn was saying to the doctor." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The company has always been the best friend I've ever had--except one--and that's why I've hung to it all these years, trailing the sledges first as a kid, you know,...