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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": 565,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The aunt grudgingly allows Torchy one supervised call a week, making clear she is only humouring her niece's whim and hinting that many other young men admire the girl.",
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"predicament": "A disapproving guardian grants a suitor strictly rationed visits, making plain she is only humouring her ward's whim."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 566,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "Torchy leaves elated, but on his first visit finds the aunt's favoured suitor, a wealthy, wooden young man, already installed at the piano, along with a strange girl.",
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"predicament": "A suitor arrives for his hard-won visit and finds the guardian's favoured rival already settled in ahead of him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 567,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The girl, a haughty, peevish beauty, snubs Torchy and monopolises the rival at the piano; Torchy teases his sweetheart that her aunt has arranged a crowd for his evenings.",
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"predicament": "A suitor snubbed by his sweetheart's fashionable friends suspects the guardian has stacked the room to keep them apart."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 568,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "His sweetheart explains the guest is unhappy at home; the restless guest keeps interrupting their chat, and at ten the aunt appears and silently shows Torchy out.",
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"predicament": "A suitor's rationed time with his sweetheart is spoiled by a restless guest, and the guardian ends it to the minute."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 569,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The next week the same pair are there; his sweetheart explains the guest is from a family newly rich through her father's antiques business, and was sent to an expensive finishing school.",
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"predicament": "Someone learns that a haughty young woman's polish is newly bought, and that her family rose from very humble beginnings."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 570,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The guest scorns her unrefined mother; Torchy's sweetheart is going to stay with her, and hints that Torchy may visit, teasing him about the rival's constant presence.",
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"predicament": "A young woman polished beyond her family has grown ashamed of the plain mother who stayed behind to raise her."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 571,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "Calling at the guest's family's cluttered house, Torchy meets the rival, who excitedly announces that she has just accepted his ring; Torchy assumes he means his own sweetheart.",
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"predicament": "A suitor is told by his rival, bursting with joy, that the girl has just accepted him, and fears the worst."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 572,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "Torchy stiffly congratulates him, then learns the fiancée is the guest; relieved, he warms to the rival, who wants to ask the girl's mother rather than her father, and Torchy advises against it.",
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"predicament": "Someone who braced himself to congratulate a rival learns the prize was someone else, and warms to him at once."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 573,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The young man insists on doing it properly and begs Torchy to stay and support him; Torchy sends for the mother.",
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"predicament": "A nervous young man about to ask a parent for a daughter's hand begs a former rival to stand beside him."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 574,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The mother, rough, over-jewelled and defensive, at first addresses Torchy by mistake; then the young man asks formally for her daughter's hand.",
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"predicament": "A plain, defensive mother, used to being left out of her own family, is suddenly asked for her daughter's hand."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 575,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "Touched that he came to her first, the mother softens and weeps, admits she spoiled her daughter, and asks him to tell the girl her old mother still loves her.",
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"predicament": "A mother her daughter has outgrown is moved to tears when a suitor shows her the respect the daughter never does."
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},
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{
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"chunk": 576,
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"story": 42,
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"summary": "The young man promises and calls her Mother; the girls come in and all embrace tearfully, and Torchy slips away, dreading the day he might have to ask his sweetheart's aunt.",
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"predicament": "Someone who witnessed a tender family reconciliation slips away, dreading the day he must face his own sweetheart's guardian."
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}
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]
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