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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wot's yer game, old sport?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove! ejaculated Setley delightedly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She's doing it. I was rather doubtful whether she would tackle that gradient. Now, you bounders, how's that?"
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We're through, ejaculated Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will, replied Ralph."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had forgotten. Suppose it was in the excitement of the minute. Any casualties?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Private Saunderson has got a gash over the left eye, sir, reported the sergeant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A splinter of steel must have come in through the sighting aperture. It's not at all a serious wound."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whack her up for all she's worth, ordered Ralph, addressing the motor mechanic."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, lads, it's a race. It's up to us to get to that viaduct before the train can cross."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pass the word that any man who wishes may get out, he said to Sergeant Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to ram that engine."
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mercy, Kamerad!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's to be done with this crush? enquired Ralph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We can't fire on the blighters, we can't take them prisoners."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And if we let them go they'll soon tell their pals, sir, added Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The best thing, I take it, is to hold them under the cover of our guns and await events. Our cavalry patrols may be here shortly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Won't do, he objected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More than likely the limits of to-day's gains are already fixed, in which case we may have to wait until next week. I'll order the Boches to clear out. It will leave us free for another task; after that we must take our chances."
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, declared Ralph, as the handful of Britons were left alone with the dead and dying victims of the deliberate collision."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A couple of men, with a charge of explosive and a two-minute fuse: we're going to settle the bridge."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Properly plugged, an' no chance of gettin' back to Blighty. 'Op it, sir, an' don't worry arter me."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you hit?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Left leg, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No more bloomin' football for me, worse luck. It's like this, sir----"
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put your hands round my neck and hang on, ordered Setley."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm going to carry you in."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bringin' 'em in, sergeant? asked one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We're all best outside, I'm thinking. They're bringing up the guns."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Jove, so they are! exclaimed Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, outside every man jack of you. We'll be having fifteen-pounder shells this way in half a jiffey."
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you making for, sergeant?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For that farmhouse, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better not, protested the wounded subaltern, as resolutely as his bodily weakness permitted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They'll mark us down for a dead cert if we take up our position there. Select a spot at least two hundred yards away."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where's the German officer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I 'it 'im a little too 'ard, sir, he explained."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Meant ter put 'im to sleep in the best perfessional manner, but----"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He was as dead as a doornail before you left to destroy the bridge, sir, reported Sergeant Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We didn't worry to bring his carcase away, and I guess it will be a warning to his pals when they find him. Hullo, sir! You're right. Fritz has started to shell the farmhouse."
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If they let it go at that we may even yet have a chance,"
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No chance of slipping through, decided the sergeant."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We'll lie close and trust to luck. They may not spot us. If they get too curious we'll give them something to remember."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're mighty keen on getting us, said Ralph."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A couple of thousand men at the very least."
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand by,"
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now for a good old shelling,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're going to wait until its dark and then rush us, decided Alderhame."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Jove, I never before played to such a crowded audience as this!"
}
] |
51332
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Buck up, Setley! exclaimed Danvers."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't keep us waiting. Here's plenty of room inside."
}
] |
51332
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bless my soul, no! replied the doctor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A few months at home and you'll be as fit as a fiddle. Let me be the first to congratulate you, Mr. Setley."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "On what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Promotion and the D.S.O., replied the medico."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Both well earned, let me say. Now, don't get excited, or you'll put yourself back. The sooner you get fit the sooner you'll be given the command of one of the latest super-Tanks. I know that for a fact."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's good, murmured the wounded lieutenant."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All I hope is that when the Greatest Push comes off I'll again be to the Fore with the Tanks!"
}
] |
4383
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Larouche, do things go pretty well across the water?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not badly, my lads, not so badly."
}
] |
4383
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The lake is solid yet, said Cleophas Pesant,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you that we shall have a lean year, asserted one old fellow,"
}
] |
4383
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The work on the wharf will go forward at once ... I have been sent money by the Government, and those looking for a job should see me before vespers. If you want this money to stay in the parish instead of being sent back to Quebec you had better lose no time in speaking to me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And who will be foreman at three dollars a day? Perhaps good old Laliberte ..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A surveyor from Roberval will be in the parish next week. If anyone wishes his land surveyed before mending his fences for the summer, this is to let him know."
}
] |
4383
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Two men are up here with money to buy furs. If you have any bear, mink, muskrat or fox you will find these men at the store until Wednesday, or you can apply to François Paradis of Mistassini who is with them. They have plenty of money and will pay cash for first-class pelts."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who wants to buy a fine young pig of my breeding?"
}
] |
4383
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twenty-five cents!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fifty cents!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dollar!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't play the fool, Jean. Your wife will never let you pay a dollar for such a pig as that."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A dollar, I won't go back on it."
}
] |
4383
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria Chapdelaine is back from her visit to St. Prime, and there is her father come to fetch her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it Samuel Chapdelaine who has a farm in the woods on the other side of the river, above Honfleur?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the girl with him is his daughter? Maria ..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, she has been spending a month at St. Prime with her mother's people. They are Bouchards, related to Wilfrid Bouchard of St. Gedeon ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fine hearty girl!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right you are! A fine hearty girl, and one with plenty of spirit too. A pity that she lives so far off in the woods. How are the young fellows of the village to manage an evening at their place, on the other side of the river and above the falls, more than a dozen miles away and the last of them with next to no road?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good day to you, Mr. Chapdelaine. Good day, Miss Maria. I am in great luck at meeting you, since your farm is so high up the river and I don't often come this way myself."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "François Paradis!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is indeed a bit of luck, for I haven't seen you this long while, François. And your father dead too. Have you held on to the farm?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You remember François Paradis of Mistassini, Maria? He has changed very little."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor have you, Mr. Chapdelaine. But your daughter, that is a different story; she is not the same, yet I should have known her at once."
}
] |
4383
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "François Paradis! ... Why surely, father, I remember François Paradis."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, Mr. Chapdelaine, I have not kept the farm. When the good man died I sold everything, and since then I have been nearly all the time in the woods, trapping or bartering with the Indians of Lake Mistassini and the Riviere aux Foins. I also spent a couple of years in the Labrador."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you going home to-day?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; right after dinner."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am glad that I saw you, for I shall be passing up the river near your place in two or three weeks, when the ice goes out. I am here with some Belgians who are going to buy furs from the Indians; we shall push up so soon as the river is clear, and if we pitch a tent above the falls close to your farm I will spend the evening with you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is good, François, we will expect you."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You should be safe enough for crossing this evening, said Nazaire Larouche,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody says that the ice will hold for a long time yet, replied his sister-in-law."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better sleep here again to-night, and after supper the young folks from the village will drop in and spend the evening. It is only fair that Maria should have a little more amusement before you drag her off into your woods up there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has had plenty of gaiety at St. Prime; singing and games almost every night. We are greatly obliged to you, but I am going to put the horse in immediately after dinner so as to get home in good time."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you baked?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is your pump working well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I assault her with parables, chuckled he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's politer."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is nicer than our house, thought Maria to herself. Nazaire Larouche kept directing attention to his wants with dark sayings:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Was your pig very lean? he demanded; or perhaps:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fond of maple sugar, are you? I never get enough of it ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quite right. Quite right. I won't do it again; but you always loved a joke, Azalma. When you have youngsters like me at dinner you must look for a little nonsense."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The mass is beautiful. I am often very sorry that we live so far from churches. Perhaps not being able to attend to our religion every Sunday hinders us from being just so fortunate as other people."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is not our fault, sighed Maria,"
}
] |
4383
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get up there, Charles Eugene!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Charles Eugene, ill-favoured beast that you are! Wretched, badly brought up creature! Get along, Charles Eugene!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charles Eugene, get on there!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, father, said Maria,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is a little water on the ice, said he,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go on, Charles Eugene! Go on there!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are the last to cross this year,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "They will be glad to see you again, Maria, said her father."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They have been lonesome for you, every one of them."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "O look, said Alma Rose,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has been lonely without you like the rest of us, came from Alma Rose."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every morning he used to look at your bed to see if you were not back. She called him to her."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, Chien; come and let me pet you too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you a good girl while I was away, Alma Rose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Alma Rose was not too naughty; but Telesphore has been a perfect torment to me. It is not so much that he does what is wrong; but the things he says! One might suppose that the boy had not all his wits."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was the Demon of gluttony who tempted me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Demon of disobedience lured me into that. Beyond doubt it was he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But he must not be allowed to come back, eh, mother! He must not be allowed to come back, this bad spirit. I will take father's gun and I will shoot him ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You cannot shoot devils with a gun, objected his mother."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when you feel the temptation coming, seize your rosary and say your prayers."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A visitor, announced mother Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eutrope Gagnon has come over to see us."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greeting to each and all, was the salutation as he pulled off his woollen cap."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A fine night, and there is still a crust on the snow-, as the walking was good I thought that I would drop in this evening to find out if you were back."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The weather is mild; if it misses turning wet it will be by very little. One can feel that the spring rains are not far off ..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The beasts have been in the stable since the end of October and the barn is just about empty, said mother Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unless spring comes soon I don't know what we are going to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three weeks at least before they can be turned out to pasture."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A horse, three cows, a pig and the sheep, without speaking of the fowls; it takes something to feed them!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How nice it would be to live in a country where there is hardly any winter, and where the earth makes provision for man and beast. Up here man himself, by dint of work, must care for his animals and his land. If we did not have Esdras and Da'Be earning good wages in the woods how could we get along?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the soil is rich in these parts,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The soil is good but one must battle for it with the forest; and to live at all you must watch every copper, labour from morning to night, and do everything yourself because there is no one near to lend a hand."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only you wait a few months ... When the boys are back from the woods we shall set to work, they two, Tit'Bé, and I, and presently we shall have our land cleared. With four good men ax in hand and not afraid of work things will go quickly, even in the hard timber. Two years from now there will be grain harvested, and pasturage that will support a good herd of cattle. I tell you that we are going to make land."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make land!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "At their ease ..."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "At their ease..."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is raining! he exclaimed. His hosts made toward the door to see for themselves; the rain had in truth begun, a spring rain with great drops that fell heavily, under which the snow was already softening and melting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The sou'east has taken hold, announced the elder Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now we can say that the winter is practically over."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Spring is not far ... Spring is not far ..."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The ice is going out, she announced to those within."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can hear the falls."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "François will soon be passing. He said that perhaps he would come to see us. Maria replied with a scarce audible"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are camped at the end of the portage above the rapids. The tent had to be pitched and things put in order to make the Belgians comfortable for the night. When I set out I knew it was hardly the hour for a call and that the paths through the woods must be pretty bad. But I started all the same, and when I saw your light..."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only Tit'Bé has changed, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When you left Mistassini he was but so high..."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nor have you altered in these seven years; not a bit; as for Maria ... surely you find a difference!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You see that ... that I saw her the other day at Peribonka."
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And so you sold the farm when your father died?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, I sold everything. I was never a very good hand at farming, you know. Working in the shanties, trapping, making a little money from time to time as a guide or in trade with the Indians, that is the life for me; but to scratch away at the same fields from one year's end to another, and stay there forever, I would not have been able to stick to that all my life; I would have felt like a cow tethered to a stake."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That is so, some men are made that way. Samuel, for example, and you, and many another. It seems as if the woods had some magic for you ... She shook her head and looked at him in wonderment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Frozen in winter, devoured by flies in summer; living in a tent on the snow, or in a log cabin full of chinks that the wind blows through, you like that better than spending your life on a good farm, near shops and houses. Just think of it; a nice bit of level land without a stump or a hollow, a good warm house all papered inside, fat cattle pasturing or in the stable; for people well stocked with implements and who keep their health, could there be anything better or happier?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A fine life for those who are fond of the land, he said at last,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Up there the winters are harder yet than here, and still longer. We have only dogs to draw our sleds, fine strong dogs, but bad-tempered and often half wild, and we feed them but once a day, in the evening, on frozen fish.... Yes, there are settlements, but almost no farming; the men live by trapping and fishing ... No, I never had any difficulty with the Indians; I always got on very well with them. I know nearly all those on the Mistassini and this river, for they used to come to our place before my father died. You see he often went trapping in winter when he was not in the shanties, and one season when he was at the head of the Riviere aux Foins, quite alone, a tree that he was cutting for firewood slipped in falling, and it was the Indians who found him by chance next day, crushed and half-frozen though the weather was mild. He was in their game preserve, and they might very well have pretended not to see him and have left him to die there; but they put him on their toboggan, brought him to their camp, and looked after him. You knew my father: a rough man who often took a glass, but just in his dealings, and with a good name for doing that sort of thing himself. So when he parted with these Indians he told them to stop and see him in the spring when they would be coming down to Pointe Bleue with their furs-François Paradis of Mistassini,' said he to them, will not forget what you have done ... François Paradis.' And when they came in spring while running the river he looked after them well and every one carried away a new ax, a fine woollen blanket and tobacco for six months. Always after that they used to pay us a visit in the spring, and father had the pick of their best skins for less than the companies' buyers had to pay. When he died they treated me in the same way be cause I was his son and bore the same name, François Paradis. With more capital I could have made a good bit of money in this trade-a good bit of money."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall be coming down in a few weeks and I will try to stay a little longer, he said as he departed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is good to see you again."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Immaculate heart of Jesus, have pity on us..."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Great St. Joseph, pray for us..."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "St. Isidore, pray for us..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How pleasant it is to have a caller, when we see hardly anyone but Eutrope Gagnon from year's end to year's end. But that is what comes of living so far away in the woods ... Now, when I was a girl at St. Gedeon, the house was full of visitors nearly every Saturday evening and all Sunday: Adelard Saint-Onge who courted me for such a long time; Wilfrid Tremblay, the merchant, who had nice manners and was always trying to speak as the French do; many others as well--not counting your father who came to see us almost every night for three years, while I was making up my mind..."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the boys get back we are going to make land,"
}
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{
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"value": "If there is anything, said the mother,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The stumps are hard to get out. at length said the elder Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three weeks ... Yes, confound it! That is what I think too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am done for ... Ah! I am done for. But he pulled himself together on seeing her, and roared out--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cold water! Perdition! Give me cold water."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gently ... together now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Perdition! I'll make you stir, so I will. His gasps were nearly as audible as the words. Taking breath for a second he rushed once more into the fray, arms straining, wrenching with his great back. And yet again his voice was raised in oaths and lamentations:-"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I tell you that I'll have you ... Oh you rascal! Isn't it hot? . . I'm pretty nearly finished ... His complaints ripened into one mighty cry:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Boss! We are going to kill ourselves making land."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tough! Edwige, tough! The pea-soup will soon be ready."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the fine weather lasts, said mother Chapdelaine,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "On the feast of Ste. Anne, said their mother by way of consolation,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "With five men, said Eutrope,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You don't make very quick progress by yourself, that is true enough, but a man lives on very little when he is alone, and then your brother Egide will be coming back from the drive with two or three hundred dollars at least, in time for the hay-making and the harvest, and, if you both stay here next winter, in less than two years you will have a good farm."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How does the drive go? asked Esdras."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there any news from that quarter?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had word through Ferdina Larouche, a son of Thadee Larouche of Honfleur, who got back from La Tuque last month. He said that things were going well; the men were not having too bad a time."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "A hard time! exclaimed Legare with scorn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The young fellows of to-day don't know the meaning of the words. After three months in the woods they are in a hurry to get home and buy yellow boots, stiff hats and cigarettes, and to go and see their girls. Even in the shanties, as things are now, they are as well fed as in a hotel, with meat and potatoes all winter long. Now, thirty years ago ..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thirty years ago, when the railway from Quebec was built, I was there; that was something like hardship, I can tell you! I was only sixteen years of age but I chopped with the rest of them to clear the right of way, always twenty-five miles ahead of the steel, and for fourteen months I never clapped eye on a house. We had no tents, summer or winter, only shelters of boughs that we made for ourselves. And from morning till night it was chop, chop, chop,--eaten by the flies, and in the course of the same day soaked with rain and roasted by the sun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Every Monday morning they opened a sack of flour and we made ourselves a bucketful of pancakes, and all the rest of the week, three times a day, one dug into that pail for something to eat. By Wednesday, no longer any pancakes, because they were all stuck together; nothing there but a mass of dough. One cut off a big chunk of dough with one's knife, put that in his belly, and then chopped and chopped again!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When we got to Chicoutimi where provisions could reach us by water we were worse off than Indians, pretty nearly naked, all scratched and torn, and I well remember some who began to cry when told they could go home, because they thought they would find all their people dead, so long had the time seemed to them. Hardship! That was hardship if you like."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That is so, said Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can recall those days. Not a single house on the north side of the lake: no one but Indians and a few trappers who made their way up here in summer by canoe and in winter with dog-sleds, much as it is now in the Labrador."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And now, said Esdras,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another visitor!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have come to pay you a visit!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My nephew Lorenzo, was Ephrem Surprenant's introduction,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, a son of my brother Elzear who married a young Bourglouis of Kiskisink. You should be able to recall that, Madame Chapdelaine?"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right. Precisely right. Well, this one here is Lorenzo. He has been in the States for many years, working in a factory."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "He came here, continued his uncle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has no wish to hold on to the land and cultivate it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, the idea of settling down on the farm does not tempt me, not in theleast. I earn good wages where I am and like the place very well; I am used to the work."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "When I was a girl, said mother Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, there has been some talk with three Frenchmen who came to Mistook last month. I expect we shall make a bargain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And are there many Canadians where you are living? Do the people speak French?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At the place I went to first, in the State of Maine, there were more Canadians than Americans or Irish; everyone spoke French; but where I live now, in the State of Massachusetts, there are not so many families however; we call on one another in the evenings."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Samuel once thought of going West, said Madame Chapdelaine,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Canadian ; whereas for all the other races that followed in his footsteps, and peopled the country across to the Pacific, he keeps the name of origin: English, Irish, Polish, Russian; never admitting for a moment that the children of these, albeit born in the country, have an equal title to be called"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Canadians."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And is it a large town where you are?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ninety thousand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ninety thousand! Bigger than Quebec!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and we are only an hour by train from Boston. A really big place, that."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telesphore, directed the father,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Telesphore covered the bottom of the leaky vessel with earth, filling it then with dry chips and twigs which he set ablaze. When the flame was leaping up brightly he returned with an armful of herbs and leaves and smothered it; the volume of stinging smoke which ascended was carried by the wind into the house and drove out the countless horde. At length they were at peace, and with sighs of relief could desist from the warfare. The very last mosquito settled on the face of little Alma Rose. With great seriousness she pronounced the ritual words-"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Fly, fly, get off my face, my nose is not a public place!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Greetings to everyone!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Offer your chair, Da'Be!"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There! You are forever saying that we are buried in the woods and see no company, triumphed her husband."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Count them over: eleven grown-up people!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "And look, said Ephrem Surprenant,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had you a good trip, François?-He went up the river with strangers to buy furs from the Indians, explained Chapdelaine; who presented to the others with formality-"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "François Paradis, son of François Paradis from St. Michel de Mistassini. Eutrope Gagnon knew him by name, Ephrem Surprenant had met his father:--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A tall man, taller still than he, of a strength not to be matched. it only remained to account for Lorenzo Surprenant,-"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A good trip, answered François."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not very good. One of the Belgians took a fever and nearly died. After that it was rather late in the season; many Indian families had already gone down to Ste. Anne de Chicoutimi and could not be found; and on top of it all a canoe was wrecked when running a rapid on the way back, and it was hard work fishing the pelts out of the river, without mentioning the fact that one of the bosses was nearly drowned,-the same one that had the fever. No, we were unlucky all through. But here we are none the less, and it is always another job over and done with."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Always another job over and done with, -he slowly repeated the words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Belgians were in a hurry to reach Peribonka on Sunday, tomorrow; but, as they had another man, I left them to finish the journey without me so that I might spend the evening with you. It does one's heart good to see a house again."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Telesphore! called out Esdras,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maria is not at her best this evening, said Madame Chapdelaine by way of excusing her,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will sleep here to-night, François?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course! said she."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And to-morrow we will all gather blueberries. It is the feast of Ste. Anne."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is a fine clump over here,"
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There are very few this year, said François."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was the spring frosts that killed the blossoms. He brought to the berry-seeking his woodsman's knowledge."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the hollows and among the alders the snow was lying longer and kept them from freezing."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The others cannot be far away,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am going down to Grand'Mere next week, he said, almost in a whisper,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hesitating a moment he stammered out, eyes on the ground:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps ... they have said something against me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is true that I used to drink a bit, when I got back from the shanties and the drive; but that is all over now. You see when a young fellow has been working in the woods for six months, with every kind of hardship and no amusement, and gets out to La Tuque or Jonquieres with all the winter's wages in his pocket, pretty often he loses his head; he throws his money about and sometimes takes too much ... But that is all over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And it is also true that I used to swear. When one lives all the time with rough men in the woods or on the rivers one gets the habit. Once I swore a good deal, and the cure, Mr. Tremblay, took me to task because I said before him that I wasn't afraid of the devil. But there is an end of that too, Maria. All the summer I am to be working for two dollars and a half a day and you may be sure that I shall save money. And in the autumn there will be no trouble finding a job as foreman in a shanty, with big wages. Next spring I shall have more than five hundred dollars saved, clear, and I shall come back... ."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will be here still...next spring?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wind is backing to the sou'east. Bad luck! Beyond question it will rain again,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "If the nor'west holds till to-morrow we shall begin,"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mark my words, we shall not have good hay-making weather. They say that down by the end of the lake some people of the same parish have gone to law with one another. Of a certainty the good God does not like that sort of thing!"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may rain now if it likes, said Chapdelaine."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be all the same to us."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "You can go to bed, Maria, I will look after the second baking."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Were you lonely without me, Maria?"
}
] |
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[
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was fond of them both, --thus she declared to Maria."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And I really think I liked Zotique best; but he went off to the drive on the St. Maurice, and he wasn't to be back till summer; then Romeo asked me and I said, 'Yes.' I like him very well, too."
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "The bread must be ready!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had it only been an ordinary year!"
}
] |
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "After the first snowfall there is yet a month before winter sets in. The old folks always so declared, and I believe it myself."
}
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't let the fire out, children."
}
] |
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