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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I reckon that the old lady and Mamie are having a high old time in some of them gilded pallises in St. Petersburg or Berlin about this time. Them diamonds that I ordered at Tiffany ought to have reached 'em about now, so that Mamie could cut a swell at Christmas with her war-pai...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Illustrated London News" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You kin take up supper into my office, said Mulrady, with a sudden inspiration." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'll eat it there." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose the likes of your honor won't be at home on the Christmas Day? And it's me cousins from the old counthry at Rough-and-Ready that are invitin' me." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why don't you ask them over here? said Mulrady, with another vague inspiration."...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rouse up out o' this, old man! Come! this won't do. Look! I've run over here in the rain, jist to have a sociable time with you all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I knew it, said the old man, without looking up;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I knew yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I don't see why us old folks can't enjoy ourselves without them, said Mulrady, with affected cheerfulness." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let's have a good time, you and me. Let's see--you haven't any one you can send to my house, hev you?" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Heaven keep us from being dependent upon our children!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let the young ones alone to-night; we can get along without them, as they can without us, said Mulrady, with a slight twinge as he thought of his reflections on the hillside." }, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen to me, Alvin Mulrady, he said, leaning over him with burning eyes." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Listen, while I have brain to think and strength to utter, why I have learnt to distrust, fear, and hate them! You think you know my story. Well, hear the truth f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I never knew how hard I had worked until that morning; I never knew what privations I had undergone until that moment of my success, when I found I could scarcely think or move! I staggered out into the open air. The only human soul near me was a disappointed prospector, a man n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The first year, he went on more rapidly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I prayed for their coming. I looked for them every day. I never lost hope. I said to myself, 'She has not got my letter; but when the time passes she will be alarmed by my silence, and then she w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ef you reckon from that that I'm goin' to hand you over the mine to-morrow, he went on, after a pause, raising his hand with a deprecating gesture," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And you think I'll take it now? said the old man passionately." }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I had to come over, Mulrady, he said, in a choked voice;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I could stand it there no longer. I've come to beg you to forget all that I have said; to drive all thought of what passed between us last night out of your head and mine forever!...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Record" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We promised each other, he said, in a voice trembling with emotion;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You are unhappy, Alvin Mulrady. You are unhappy because you want to give your daughter a dowry of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and you will not use the fortu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Never mind him, said the old man, hastily;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I tell you what, old man, said Mulrady, rising to his feet, with an awkward mingling of frankness and shame in his manner and accent," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I should like ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take a cheer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You can talk all the same, said Mulrady, accepting the significance." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He's my private secretary." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It seems that for that reason we might...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I hoped the Senora Mulrady might have saved me this interview, said the young man, stiffly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know what you're driving at, or what Mrs. Mulrady's got to do with Slinn or you," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do I under...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You know perfectly the contents of that letter?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have kept a copy of it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come with me." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Send that to the bank." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Don Caesar Alvarado has found the letter you wrote your wife on the day you made your strike in the tunnel that is now my shaft. He gave the letter to Mrs. Mulrady; but he has kept a copy." }, { "from": "h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "P'raps I'd better read it for you, said Mulrady, gently." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You kin follow me and stop me when I go wrong." }, { "from": "human", "value": "DEAR WIFE,--I've just struck gold in my tunnel, and you must get ready to come here wit...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You can't go in there alone, and without a light, said Mulrady, laying his hand on the arm of the excited man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let me get more help and proper tools." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I know every step in the dark as in the d...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You--see, he gasped, brokenly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I was not--crazy!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "LIONS IN THEIR DENS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What does she require? Why has she come? She neither replies nor turns her head, but gathers up the garments I have taken off, together with the few toilet necessaries I have placed on the table, then turning towards me she extends her right arm. I start back, and my question," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TURNING TOWARDS ME, SHE EXTENDS HER RIGHT ARM." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "whose almost continual presence at the wicket of my door is intended to keep me from communicating with my neighbours, to render my life more miserable, to force me to confess, and to make it a matter of impossibility for me to change my garments, or enjoy any repose. Aunt Vera,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What can they see?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "GHOSTS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But that" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "is long, and lasts eight months. At last, one day, at the commencement of summer, I hear a male voice in the corridor cry," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No. 16 for an interview." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My God, how you are changed, my little one!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Science is good, said the physician," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A HOT SICKNESS TOUCHED HIM WITH ITS FINGER." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Bored, eh? Yes. You're just the kind of over-educated, over-refined man that would drop his hold on life through sheer boredom. You've been a most interesting case so far, and I won't lose you...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "READING A PAPER, WITH HER FEET ON A BOX OF SOAP." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "An' the saints only know whin Mike'll be back av a Sunday, she concluded cheerfully, after a history of Mike's peculiarities." }, { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be afther ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I must get to the room, she insisted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, surely, there is a way, any way!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "There's wan way, said the caretaker's wife, stung to profitable thought by the other's distress." }, { "from...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He'll be No. 42 on the Fifth. Thin this ladder goes up to it. Bad luck to thim, they've the eshcapes front an' back, spoilin' the look av a fine house: but it's all paid for in the rint. Glory be to God, the avenue's empty--all but. But it should ha' been the back--it should ha'...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the caretaker's wife, shaking her head sadly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm so's to be round, or I'd go wid ye. Those ladders do be runnin' powerful straight up an' down. 'Tis scandalous to think--but in a fire, an' runnin' wid their night clothes, they'd n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hould tight, said the caretaker's wife." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, darlint, wait till Mike comes! Come down, now!--the good angels be wid you. There should have been a way at the back. Walk tinderly an' hould tight. Heaven above sind there'll be no wind! Oh, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is the cow with the crumpled horn." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SISTER URSULA LOOKED DOWN." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SANK PANTING AT THE FOOT OF THE BED." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is mad, thought Sister Ursula." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, heavens, and _that_ is what has driven him mad." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Where is it? Where is it?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There was no other way, she panted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The door was locked. I could not help. Oh! He is here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's Cott van Cott, said the invalid, slowly and critically." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He looks quite an old man. Cott and his Strad. How very bad for the Strad!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Open the window. Where is it? Is there a way? Open the ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "TOOK ONE LITTLE BRASS THIMBLE-LIKE THING FROM ITS INSIDE." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "God bless you, Sister Ursula, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've saved my life." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The medicine was to be given,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Wait a minute, said the invalid, and he took one little brass thimble-like thing from its inside." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I wanted to use it for something before you went out, but I saw you come up, and I don't want it any more. I must certainly get back to...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lions in Their Dens." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "M. Zola?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, monsieur, this is _not_ No. 21 _bis_--this is No. 21." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is a perpetual procession here, she goes on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is nothing but M. Zola? M. Zola? M. Zola? without cease. I wish people would learn the right address." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, I am glad that this is a wet day, or else you would very likely have regretted losing the opportunity of going to the Bois." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So you want to know _all_ about me. Now let me see what I can tell you without repeating myself." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is needless to follow my career step by step. You know what I am now--you see I have succeeded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, _mon cher maitre_, not many men can boast of a success equal to yours. Indeed, there is evidence enough in this very room of that s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This passion which obliged me frequently to change residences in order to find room for the ever increasing number of objects was acquired by me through reading Victor Hugo in my childhood. It is not so ardent now, I regret to say." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is an error; I work very hard." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What way do you proceed then, _cher maitre_?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I frequently take pencil sketches and measurement of rooms, and know exactly how the furniture is placed. Finally, I know the appearance of such quarters by night and by day. After I have collected laboriously all this material, I sit down to my work regularly every morning, and...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Finally, I repeat, I have no preconceived plot. I do not know at the beginning of a chapter how it will end. Situations must logically follow one another, that is all." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "La Terre." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Debacle." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General Gallifet is also my enemy. Do you know why? Because I have not mentioned him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How does your 'Debacle' sell now, _cher maitre_?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Not so well as at the beginning, and the cause of it is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For 'Lourdes' I have collected all my material. As you know, I followed a pilgrimage, and was given the kindest assistance by the clergy, who allowed me to consult every document in their possession. As usual, I receive every day letters from laymen and priests, who spontaneousl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what struck me was that, contrary to what one is made to expect, I did not find among the clergy that aggressive and ostentatious proselytism. Everything is conducted in a dignified, quiet, unassuming manner." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Debacle" }, { "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lourdes" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Five minutes later I was with the fellow, who asked a couple of questions. Instead, however, of waiting for complete information, which I volunteered to give, he very politely withdrew, and only the next day did I discover that he had removed valuables for about 700 francs." }...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The light that failed." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Rhine had been anchored in the harbour of St. Thomas, West Indies, for the space of two days, our First Officer, more generally known in these records as the Model Man, received a rather remarkable communication. ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You need not fear. The negroes are very particular about pads and such things. They don't wear shoes, for nothing could hurt their feet, but they never dream of batting without leg-guards, because a nigger's shins are his weak spot. These fellows are not much good at cricket aft...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I regard him as a speculation, explained the Captain of our side;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You see, men don't mind batting, but they get very unsportsmanlike when it comes to going out into the field. Some actually hide, or pretend they have engagements; others...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "NIBBLED THE BAILS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hang it, John, you've only won the toss. You couldn't make a bigger row if you'd won the match." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Great fing to go in fus, sar, explained John;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, my natural leg-break will take the ball dead into the wicket every time," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "DRIVEN BACK A TRIFLE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It isn't that, old chap, replied our physician, cheerfully, following the Model Man's eye." }, { "from": "human", "value": "In fact, I'm not sure if I even know those girls. I only suggested a place in the long field be...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look here, you know that walking-stick of mine, manufactured from a shark's backbone--the one you are always worrying me to give you? Well, I will, when we go back to the ship, if you'll take the wicket. If you fall at your post, then your heirs shall have it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Play, gem'men," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What's the matter, old man?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It's all right, old chap; you wait," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, quite so, but they count one against us every time. I didn't know whether you knew it," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It's in the air, you fool," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I'm not a bit surprised--it's just what I expected." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't really see what good it is my bowling for catches at long-leg if there's no long-leg." }, { "fro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Can't you even try to stump them?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I might, if my arms were ten feet long." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You've had dozens of chances. I always want a wicket-keeper for my bowling." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "This is mid-on. I'm all right." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You may think it's mid-on, but it isn't, shouted back the worried Model Man." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I've no doubt you're all right, he continued, bitterly," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do stand up to them, old man." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Why should I? I'm out to enjoy myself. I'm a human being, not a target. Besides, long-stop will lose interest in the game if he has nothing to do." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They don't hav...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'se too sorry, Massa, jus' too sorry, but I'se dam hungry, Sar." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "BLACK STOKER MADE TWO BRILLIANT CATCHES." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Though not a finished bat, yet it often happens that I come off with the willow when I fail with the leather." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You play steadily and cautiously and let him hit. If it chances to be his day, we may, after all, win with ten wickets in hand. Stranger things have happened at cricket." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not many, I replied;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "SOMEWHERE IN THE SMALL RIBS." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the first place the ball was a wide, and in the second, after breaking a yard and a half, it hit my elbow. Then that black ass gives me out 'leg before.' It's sickening. Emancipation is the biggest error of the century. I'm going back to the ship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "THERE WAS A GREAT ARGUMENT." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Rhine," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But, said the Fourth Officer," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, I answered," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "but a free-and-easy record of personal adventure and every-day life in those wild regions of North America which are known, variously, as Rupert's Land--The Hudson's Bay Territory--The Nor' West, and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Great Lone Land." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "WHERE I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friday --who was a French-Canadian--being cook, as well as man-of-all-works, found a little occupation in attending to the duties of his office, but the unfortunate Governor had nothing whatever to do except await the arrival of Indians, who were not due at that time. The horse ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hudson's Bay" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said he," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Do so, said he," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Snowflakes and Sunbeams; or, The Young Furtraders. Afterwards the first part of the title was dropped, and the book is now known as" }, { "from": "gpt",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nor'wester who had spent an adventurous life in Rupert's Land. Among other duties he had been sent to establish an outpost of the Hudson Bay Company at Ungava Bay, one of the most dreary parts of a desolate region. On hearing what I wanted he sat down and wrote a long narrative ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coral Island," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Coral Island." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is one thing, Mr. Ballantyne, she said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, not '_laugh_,'" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, then, you make him smile." }, { "from": "human", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lifeboat, I went to Ramsgate, and, for some time, was hand and glove with Jarman, the heroic coxswain of the Ramsgate boat, a lion-like as well as lion-hearted man, who rescued hundreds of lives from the fatal Goodwin Sands during his career. In like manner, when getting up ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fighting the Flames I careered through the streets of London on fire-engines, clad in a pea-jacket and a black leather helmet of the Salvage Corps. This, to enable me to pass the cordon of police without question--though not without recognition, as was made apparent to me on one...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Erling the Bold. A winter in Algiers made me familiar with the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pirate City. I enjoyed a fortnight with the hearty inhabitants of the Gull Lightship off the Goodwin Sands; and went to the Cape of Good Hope, and up into the interior of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The world is less hard-hearted than I thought, was my reflection as I resumed painting. A little while after this I noticed, during the pauses of my work, another little girl hovering about me in an undecided sort of way. After a few moments' indecision, _she_ dropped a penny in...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You ain't done much yet. 'Spose you're going to finish it at 'ome?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, you see, miss, I haven't taken enough yet. Can't afford to go home on twopence." }, { "from": "human", "value": "YOU AIN'T DONE MUCH YET." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hi-spi-Hoy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'yer mind me leaving my baby here, while I have a game with the Tubbses? She'll be all right if I sit her on your jacket." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "S'elp me, Bob, aint 'e a doin' it a fair treat." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Carry me out (it is impossible to write" }, { "from": "human", "value": "as _they_ pronounce it)," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(rising intonation on the" }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "D'YER MIND ME LEAVING MY BABY HERE." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "AINT 'E A DOIN' IT A FAIR TREAT." } ]