JesseMarkowitzandClaude Opus 5.5
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Fourteen corpora split and classified: aesop, bierce, chekhov, holmes, keefe, lawson, lorimer, maupassant, nobody, plaintales, poe, torchy, wallingford and winesburg, each with its splitter and the hand-written groups and pages; catalogue v2 and v3; and the shared splitters gutenberg_chunks.py, se_split.py and se_build.py. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019rwKTmug58sEsJ72AuWsEi
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{
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"chunk": 16,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Left alone in the farm kitchen while the others work the fields, a servant girl finishes the dishes, feels oppressed by the heat and smells without knowing why, and steps out for air.",
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"predicament": "A servant left alone with the chores feels a restlessness she cannot name and slips outside for a moment's air."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 17,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She watches the farmyard and the blossoming orchard, feels an animal urge to run and stretch, gathers the eggs and goes out to sit in the grass.",
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"predicament": "A young servant stirred by spring feels the pull to abandon her work and simply lie in the sun."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 18,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She lies down on straw in a ditch and dozes, and wakes to a farmhand who has long been courting her grabbing at her breast.",
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"predicament": "A young servant dozing alone is grabbed by a fellow worker who has been pressing his attentions on her for months."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 19,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She slaps him; he apologises and they sit and talk of their master, their villages and families, and she grows sad thinking of her distant mother.",
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"predicament": "A young servant who fended off a coworker's advance sits talking with him, homesick for the family she left behind."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 20,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "He kisses her again and she bloodies his nose; he admires her for it, and when she asks whether he really wants to marry her he says of course he does.",
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"predicament": "A young woman asks a persistent suitor whether he truly means marriage, and he says yes to get what he wants."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 21,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "They become lovers until he tires of her and avoids her; finding herself pregnant, she goes to him in the stable at night, and when he laughs at his promise she half strangles him.",
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"predicament": "A young woman left pregnant confronts the lover who promised marriage and now laughs his promise off."
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},
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"chunk": 22,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Overpowered, he swears to marry her at once, but a few days later she learns he has left the district for good, and she is left in misery fearing people will find out.",
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"predicament": "A young woman who forced a promise from her lover learns he has quietly left, leaving her alone with the secret."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 23,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "For months she checks her figure in a broken mirror, stops going to confession and fancies every fellow servant, and a sharp-eyed boy most of all, has found her out.",
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"predicament": "A young woman hiding a pregnancy lives in dread that every watching face in the household has already guessed."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 24,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "A letter comes that she cannot read; hoping it is from her lover, she has it read aloud and learns her mother is gravely ill; her master kindly lets her go home.",
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"predicament": "An anxious young woman hoping for word from her lover gets a letter instead saying her mother is dying."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 25,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Her mother dies and she bears a sickly premature child, leaves it with neighbours, claiming to be married, and returns to the farm aching constantly for it.",
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"predicament": "A young unmarried mother leaves her baby with others so she can keep working, and aches for it constantly."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 26,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Teased about her supposed husband, she works like two, cuts waste and drives hard bargains until her master trusts her with the whole farm's business and calls her worth her weight in gold.",
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"predicament": "A servant with a hidden child to support makes herself indispensable to her employer, hoping he will pay her more."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 27,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Her wages never rise though the farm prospers through her; she finally goes to ask for more, loses her nerve, and asks for a week's leave instead; her master says he will have something to say when she returns.",
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"predicament": "A servant whose hard work has enriched her employer tries to ask for a raise and loses her nerve at the last moment."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 28,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Her baby does not know her at first, then warms to her; she pours out her troubles to it, and on returning in tears is called into her master's room, where they sit in awkward silence.",
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"predicament": "A mother who sees her child only rarely finds it does not know her, then must go back to her employer."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 29,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "The twice-widowed farmer awkwardly proposes, saying a farm needs a mistress and a thrifty girl like her would make a man's fortune.",
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"predicament": "A servant hiding a child is suddenly offered marriage by her employer, who plainly sees her as a good bargain."
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"chunk": 30,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She collapses and says she cannot; he gives her until morning, sure she will accept a match that binds so profitable a worker to him.",
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"predicament": "A servant refuses her employer's proposal without being able to say why, and he assumes she will come round."
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},
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"chunk": 31,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She lies awake in terror, imagines she is bewitched, and at last climbs the fence and runs off across the moonlit fields crying out.",
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"predicament": "A woman trapped between an unwelcome proposal and a secret she cannot tell runs away into the night."
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},
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"chunk": 32,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "At dawn she wades into a pond to drown herself, but leeches on her legs drive her out screaming; a passing peasant tends her and drives her back to the farm.",
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"predicament": "A woman in despair tries to end her life, is turned back by chance, and is returned to the place she fled."
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{
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"chunk": 33,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "When she recovers the farmer demands an answer; she admits there may be a lover, and he names every young man around until he hits on the farmhand who left.",
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"predicament": "An employer refused in marriage interrogates his servant about a secret lover, naming suspects until he nearly guesses right."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 34,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "She swears she would refuse the former lover if he came back that day; the farmer, puzzled, reasons that no girl would refuse her master over a slip that left no trace, and she still says she cannot.",
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"predicament": "A woman pressed about her secret swears to a half-truth and keeps refusing, while her questioner grows more suspicious."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 35,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "That night the farmer comes to her bed and forces himself on her; they live as man and wife and he announces he has put up the banns.",
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"predicament": "A servant who refused her employer is forced by him at night and finds herself being married with no way to resist."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 36,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "Married, she feels like someone who has robbed her husband and will be found out; she visits her child twice a year; years later he grows moody and seems to bear her a grudge.",
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"predicament": "A wife who married while hiding a child feels she has cheated her husband, and dreads the day he finds out."
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},
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"chunk": 37,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "When she snaps at a neighbour's boy, her husband says she would not treat her own child so; convinced he knows, she flees to the church to pray.",
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"predicament": "A wife with a hidden past hears a pointed remark from her husband and fears he has found out at last."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 38,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "The priest says her husband has already told him the trouble; back home she throws herself at her husband's feet, and he shouts that his grievance is that she has given him no children.",
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"predicament": "A wife braced to be exposed learns her husband's real grievance is something else entirely: she has given him no children."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 39,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "They try ashes in water, a shepherd's charmed loaf, a schoolmaster's secrets and a pilgrimage, all in vain, and she comes to believe she is being punished for her first sin.",
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"predicament": "A childless couple try every remedy anyone suggests, and the wife comes to believe she is being punished for an old sin."
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{
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"chunk": 40,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "He beats her nightly; at last she throws him off and cries that she has had a child by the farmhand who deserted her, and that he took her by force.",
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"predicament": "A wife beaten for being childless finally flings her long-kept secret in her husband's face: she already has a child."
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{
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"chunk": 41,
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"story": 2,
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"summary": "He realises the barrenness is his own, then laughs and says they will fetch the child, since he had wanted to adopt one anyway, and is heartily glad.",
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"predicament": "A husband learns his wife hid a child from him and, against all her fears, welcomes it because it answers his own need."
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}
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]
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