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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Jack, he said to the other boy," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lad, just take off your coat and shirt. Here is a bucket of water. Put your head in that, and give yourself a good sluice; and then come down and have a cup of tea, and a bit of biscuit, and you will find yourself all right again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be useless, he said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "and he pointed to the sea boots, up to the thigh, which all fishermen wear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am sorry, for your sake, that the state of the weather will prevent our communicating with any ship we may meet. But I promise you that, if the gale breaks before we are fairly out from the channel, I will heave to and put you on board a homeward-bound ship." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look you, my lad. I fear that you will have to make the voyage with me, for we shall not touch at any port, until we arrive at our destination. If you like, I will ship you as a hand on board, as from the day of the collision. A hand, more or less, will make no difference to the...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is that for? Will said, wonderingly;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I egzpect captain haz looked at glass, Hans said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I don't like this, Hans, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is something awful about it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have big ztorm, Hans replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Helm, hard up. Out axes, and cut away the wreck, at once!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was a near squeak," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is zqueak?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I mean a close shave," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A zhave! he repeated;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, no, Will said, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakers ahead!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come out to the end of the bowsprit," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My chest is among those which have been washed up, and there are a few tools in it. I always had a fancy for carpentry; and it's hard if, in a fortnight, we cannot make some sort of craft which will carry us. Indeed, if we content ourselves with a strong framework, covered with ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Scatter, the mate said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Together, they are sure to overtake us; singly, we may escape." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Let us keep together, Hans," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us follow this up, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "They can track us, through the forest; but the water will set them off our scent." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us get through those bushes, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Be careful, Hans, not to break a twig, as you go. We can climb that tree. There are plants, with stems like cords, winding round it. The top is so thick and bushy that I don't think they can see...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There! Will said, wiping away the perspiration which streamed from his face," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you zay, Will? Zhall we get down and go furder into wood, or zhall we wait here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think, anyhow, we had better wait till tomorrow night, Will answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "They may search again, tomorro...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What shall we do next, Hans?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Perhaps some of the others may have got away, and may join us here, today or tomorrow. If any are alive, they would be certain to come back here, when they thought the Malays had left." }, { "from": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What had we better do, if no one comes back?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Build anoder boat," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But how are we to do that, Hans? We might make the framework, but we have no canvas to cover it with. Besides, even if we had, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you say, Hans?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't zay noding, Hans answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't have no obinion, at all. If you dink zat is ze best plan, let us do it." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "There is n...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Come on, we shall get there before the sun sets. I don't think it can be more than a mile and a half away." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "For the time we are safe, Will said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I believe the scoundrels are going to try to starve us out, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Let us speak to the chief, and ask how much provisions they have got." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they really intend to starve us out, Hans, we are done for. No doubt they reckon on our water falling short. They would know that it was not likely that there would be a supply here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The worst of all this is, Will said to Hans," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They are more than a match for her, I am afraid, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you say, Hans, shall we go on, or not?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We had better go, Will went on." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We can se...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Throw us a rope!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hallo! Where do you spring from?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We were shipwrecked here, ten months ago, Will said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "As you see, and he pointed to the prahus," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Look, sir, there is a passage through the reef, there; with plenty of water and width enough for your ship. I can take her through. There is no other passage, for some distance. If you take her inside, and lay her across the channel, the prahus can only attack on one side; and y...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's right, Tom, the captain said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Do you, Tom, work away at the two behind." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am afraid you are not out of danger, yet, Will said, as the captain shook him by the hand." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No doubt that boat has gone off with the news and, before morning, you will have half a dozen fresh enemies coming down, inside the reef, to at...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We could sling three or four 18-pounder shots under the bottom of the cask, to make it sink upright. Just before we slip our cables, we might lower it down with the boats; lighting the fuse the last thing, and sticking in the cork. If we don't put too much saltpetre, it might bu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They have sent on ahead, to find if we were lying in the same berth, the captain said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect they will be puzzled when they hear that we are outside, and that the entrance is guarded. I should not be surprised if they did not attack ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tom, you take charge of the sinking." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "They will be there in less than ten minutes from the moment I lowered the cask," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Not much, the captain said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I hope nothing has gone wrong," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am not ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "And you?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have no particular plan, Will said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I am in no hurry to return to England, having no relatives there. After being so long absent--for it is now a year since I sailed from Yarmouth-...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I should have taken you for at least two years older, the captain said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have done a good lot of hard work, in the last two years, Will said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Has your voyage been a pleasant one, captain?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pleasant enough, sir, on the whole; but we were attacked by the Malay pirates, and I should certainly not be here to tell the tale, at present, had it not been for the quickness and shrewdne...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But where did the boy spring from? How on earth came he to be there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What style and type is he, captain? A rough sort of chap?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In a workhouse! Major Harrison repeated." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Then I suppose his parents were farm laborers." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, the captain answered;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All this is very interesting, Capt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, Will, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want you to get a suit of shore-going clothes. You can get your sea outfit tomorrow, at your leisure; but I want you to show up well at the mess, this evening, and a suit of good clothes will always be useful to yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By jingo, Will, the first mate said, as he entered the cabin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know who your parents were, but I would bet a month's pay that the old tramp you were telling us of had nothing to do with it; for you look every inch a gentleman, fr...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, gentlemen, he said, after a minute or two, seeing that the lad did not touch the wine that was poured out for him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you going to do, now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have not made up my mind, sir, the lad said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "I expect that I shall ship in some vessel sailing for England, shortly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is not usual, certainly, for a regiment to take recruits in India; but I don't suppose that there can be any objection to it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Are you quite agreed?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Quite, sir, Will said, joyously," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Come on board, then, tomorrow at eight o'clock, and ask for Sergeant Ringwood." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say nothing about the workhouse, and as little as possible of anything which happened before you were wrecked on the island, in the barrack room." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He was on his way to China, and was wrecked among the Malays, and has gone through a good deal. Finding himself here with nothing to do, and with a prospect of active service on the frontier, he has decided to enlist and, as he is a gallant young fellow, I do not wish to balk hi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are rather slight yet, but you will fill out, in time." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, young 'un, one said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "My name is William Gale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wasn't quite sure that you were an Englishman. You are pretty nigh as dark as them copper-colored niggers here." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So would you be, Will laughed," }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, young 'un, a corporal said to him, that evening," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I expect, William answered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I don't think you have lost weight at all, the corporal said;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I a...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Where can we be going? William Gale asked the soldier next to him." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are going right away from the pass, instead of towards it." }, { "from": "human", "value": "So we are! the soldier replied." }, { "from": "gpt", ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Confound it!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Silence in the ranks, there!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Khost." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is everything quiet?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't know, corporal. Two or three times I have thought that I heard noises, and twice I have challenged." }, { "from": "human", "value": "What sort of noise?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "After doing so, fall back on the picket, at once. If the enemy are in force, hold the hut to the last. In ten minutes you will have help from the village, behind." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "English officers are coming, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "But I thought it was peace, Will exclaimed, delighted." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You told me peace had been signed, at Gundamuk, two months ago." }, { "from": "gpt", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, my lad, Major Cavagnari said, kindly," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I hear you have had a bad time of it. The Ameer tells me that you were taken prisoner near Ali-Kheyl, that you were badly wounded, and that after the snow melted you were brought down here. He...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will ask the Ameer to assign you quarters in the same house with us. We will soon bring you round, and make you strong and well again." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is the matter, Yossouf?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Trouble is coming, he said." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Heratee men are stirring up the people, and the Budmashes are threatening that they will kill the English." }, { "from": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If they do, they can but kill the three or four of us here, and our deaths will be revenged." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Things are very bad, he said, over and over again." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It would be better for you all to go away. Why does your officer stop here, to be killed?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is his duty to stay at his post, Will said." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What have you got there, Yossouf?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have brought the uniform of an Afghan soldier, the boy replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But I cannot do that, Yossouf, Will said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Heratees are coming, he said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The gates of the fort have been left open. The Cabul men are all in their barracks. They are pouring in at the gates. Do you not hear them?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That's right, my lads, Major Cavagnari said cheerfully to his men;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, lads! Major Cavagnari exclaimed," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Keep quiet, master! Yossouf's voice said, in his ear." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It is your only chance of safety." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Which way now?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think it will be safest to go into the city. We might lie hid for a few days in some deserted hut but, sooner or later, our presence there would excite comment. It will be best, I think, to go into the city. In the quar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Who is there?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I come on urgent business with Domajee, Yossouf replied." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Open quickly, there are but two of us here." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What is it?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Follow," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Has the mission been captured?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes, Will replied," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There is blood on the couch, the trader said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He is wounded, and is suffering from its loss. See! The sleeve of his coat is soaked with blood, but I see no mark on the cloth." }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, Yossouf repl...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are safe, and among friends, the Parsee said." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Drink a little more of the cordial, and then go off quietly to sleep. You need have no fear of being discovered, and your friends will be here, ere long." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Your regiment, he said to Will," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Say nothing to your fellow sergeants of what I have told you. It is possible--although not probable--that my recommendation may not be acted upon and, at any rate, some months must elapse before an answer can be received." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ride back, Sergeant Gale, the general said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The enemy are pressing the cavalry back, sir, he said as, with difficulty, he pulled up his horse." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The general desires you to use the greatest possible speed, as every moment is precious." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have to congratulate you, sir. You are now an officer; and will, I am quite sure, do every credit to my recommendation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "By the by, poor young Thompson, who died yesterday, was about your size; and you had better bid a lump sum for the whole of his kit. I shall be happy to be your banker for that, and the needful sum for your traveling expenses. When you join your regiment you will, of course, be ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Gale, Captain Edwards said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The enemy are apparently in considerable force. The defile opens here. They are disposed among rocks and boulders, on either side." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We must try and clear them out. We cannot stop here all night. It is freezing very sharp, now; and the cold will be intense, in an hour or two." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I will take thirty men, Captain Edwards said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There, he exclaimed, as a sound of firing was heard in the rear," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If the fellows only make a determined rush at us, Captain Edwards said to Will," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I think we may hold out till morning but, by that time, news that we are blockaded here will spread throughout the hills, and we may have 10,000 of them dow...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If--as is likely enough--we stumble against some of them, we will say we are wounded, and are making our way to the rear. They cannot see us in the dark, and my Afghan will pass muster; and Yossouf will certainly not be suspected. If I am discovered and killed, he will go forwar...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you doing?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are both wounded, by the Kaffirs, Yossouf answered;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Good! the Afghan replied." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How goes it in front?" }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have made my way through to ask you if you can despatch a force to their rescue. Were the tribesmen attacked in their rear, now, they might be scattered easily enough; but they are assembling very fast and, in the morning, it will be a difficult matter to reach them." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I shall, of course, he concluded," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am indeed glad to see you, the latter said, rising and shaking him heartily by the hand;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I am indeed obliged to you, colonel, for your kindness, Will said;" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I see by the Gazette you are appointed to the 66th, and we were expecting to see you on your way down. Had you any difficulty in getting through the passes?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The convoy was attacked, sir, by the tribesmen, when near Jugdulluk; but the ga...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have been grumbling horribly at our bad luck. We thought, at the time, we were fortunate at being sent back to India, when peace was signed, instead of being kept in the Khurum valley. But the consequence has been that we have been out of it all. However, we must look upon yo...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Lieutenant Gale here?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "A note from the general, the orderly said and, handing it to him," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As Lieutenant Gale was promoted from your regiment, I think it is likely that he has found his way to you. I have written to ask him to dinner; please spare him to me. I hope you will do me the pleasure of accompanying him. He has performed a most gallant action; and I have just...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Now, he said, turning to Will," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It was simple enough and, in fact, there was less danger than in remaining with the convoy, to be popped at by the Afghans. The night was very dark and, down in the bottom, one could hardly see one's hand. The Afghans had been cleared pretty well off the road, by our fire; so th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No good, whatever!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you ask my advice I should not, at your time of life, dream of setting to to learn the dead languages, or to study mathematics. Read the histories of Rome and Greece, and study that of your own country. Read books of travel and the biographies of great men, and keep yourself ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But I fear you are severely wounded." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Oh, no! Will answered." }, { "from": "human", "value": "It is only a flesh wound, from my shoulder to my elbow. Luckily, my sword partly caught the blow. I was aiming at the other fellow,...