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39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"value": "of Lancashire witches was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death, at Lancaster; but after more elaborate investigation into the circumstances, first at Chester, under the presidency of the bishop, and afterwards at London, by the physicians and surgeons to the king, and aga... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
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"from": "human",
"value": "Our Saviour went into a baker's shop where they were baking, and asked for some bread to eat: the mistress of the shop immediately put a piece of dough into the oven to bake for him; but was reprimanded by her daughter, who, insisting that the piece of dough was too large, reduc... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He had scarce said the last word before she was turned into a great black woodpecker, or Gertrude's bird, and flew from her kneading trough right up the chimney; and till this very day you may see her flying about, with her red mutch on her head, and her body all black, because ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Manx herring fishers dare not go to sea without one of these birds taken dead with them, for fear of disasters and storms. Their tradition is of a _sea spirit_ that hunted the _herring track_, attended always by storms, and at last it assumed the figure of a wren and flew away. ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must say the end of the story seemed to me too horrible to listen to. I shuddered, and was ready to curse the race that was capable of committing such acts. But on careful enquiry, I found it was a case of monomania with the boy Akosho, and that he really was the murderer of t... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mythology of the Aryan Nations, referring to the origin of Greek"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lykanthropy, says,--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The question to be answered is, whence came the notions that men were changed into wolves, bears, and bir... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and, as such, he himself appeared in the form of a wolf. His mother, Latona, as Kelly observes, was regarded as"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and she"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Coming of Arthur,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notes and Queries"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Far, far away, is a land of woe, darkness, spirits of evil, and _fire_. Day by day does the little bird bear in his bill a drop of water to quench the flame. So near to the burning stream does he fly, that his dear lit... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or shell-mounds, the absence of the bones of the domestic fowl, two species of swallow, the sparrow and the stork, has been commented upon by several archæologists. This is attributable, doubtless, to the sacred character with which they were invested by the inhabitants of the d... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and Pennant, when describing what is called the tawny owl, says,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glaucopis, or owl-eyed. According to Payne Knight, this symbol was adopted for the wise goddess because the owl was"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Easy to foretel what sort of summer it would be by the position in which the larva of _Cicàda (Aphrophora) spumaria_ was found to lie in the froth (_cuckoo-spit_) in which it is enveloped. If the insect lay with its head upwards, it infallibly denoted a dry summer; if downwards,... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and is regarded as"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in his marvellous poem,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Raven."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Life of Alfred the Great, when describing a victory gained by that king near Kynwith Castle says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doubtless much of the still lingering aversion for crows, ravens, and magpies, is but the remains of the dislike of our Anglo-Saxon ancest... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If a crow fly but over the house and croak thrice, how do they fear, they, or some one else in the family, shall die. The croaking of crows and ravens foreboded rain. In this particular they resembled the woodpecker. It was, nay, it is yet held that to see a crow on the left han... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Athenian Oracle the following curious rejoinder appears to the query:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why rats, toads, ravens, screech owls, are ominous; and how they came to foreknow fatal events? The writer replies:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Had... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WISH"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "is by no means extinct in the North of England. In modern times it is chiefly believed to be potent in the detection of metallic veins, hidden treasure, or subterranean springs of water. Our ancestors, however, held that this mystic ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When you find in the wood or elsewhere, on old walls or on high hills or rocks, a rowan which has grown out of a berry let fall from a bird's bill, you must go at twilight in the evening of the third day after our Lady's day, and either uproot or break off the said rod or tree; ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The method of procedure was to cut the twig of a hazel or an apple tree, of twelvemonths' growth, into a forked shape, and to hold this by both hands in a peculiar way, walking across the land until the twig bent, which was taken as an indication of the locality of a lode. The p... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art of Simpling, Coles says that witches"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He adds--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Some plants have roots with a number of threads, like beards, as mandrakes, whereof witches and imposters make an ugly image, giving it the ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another terrible quality imputed to this wretched plant was that the person pulling it out of the ground would be seriously injured by its pestilential effects, some even averring that death speedily resulted from them; in order therefore to guard against this danger, the surrou... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The story of the origin of these trees, as related in the Veda, is somewhat curious. It exhibits the root of the superstitious reverence, so common amongst all the Aryan tribes, in which certain trees and plants are held, and of the belief in their medical and magical properties... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Near Boitpoor, in Upper India, I passed a fine tree of the mimosa genus, with leaves, at a little distance, so much resembling those of the mountain ash, that I was for a moment deceived, and asked if it did not bring fruit. They answered no; but that it was a very noble tree, b... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sylvan Sketches, (1825), informs us, on the authority of Lightfoot, that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The infant Zeus, of the Greeks, was first fed by the Melian nymphs with honey"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was a positive, as well as a mythi... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "as originally intimately connected with the divining rod. He refers to Hogarth's"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Analysis of Beauty, in which the great satirical artist gives an engraving of what he terms a"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which represents... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "NOVEL USE FOR THE BIBLE.--At the Norwich assizes, on Wednesday, the case of Creak _v._ Smith was tried. It was an action for slander, the slanderous words imputed to the defendant being as follows:--'You are the thief, and no other man. You have robbed the fatherless and the mot... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It may appear strange to many that having dealt with the superstitions of the Cornish people, no mention has been made of the Divining Rod (_the Dowzing Rod_, as it is called), and its use in the discovery of mineral lodes. This has been avoided, in the first place, because any ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stick and Table Turning, published in"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All the Year Round,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A good deal of attention was paid by the newspapers to certain alleged achievements of two diviners, or dowsers, about twenty years a... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the area of Kiora, lying to the southward of Ararat, the settlers, who are very anxious to discover springs of water upon their selections, have engaged the services of an old man, apparently between sixty and seventy years of age, who professes to discover springs by the aid... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "St. Helen's well. The name has become corrupted by the neighbouring peasantry in a most singular manner. On my first visit to the locality, I inquired of an elderly woman if she could inform me in what direction I should proceed to find _St. Helen's well_. She at first said she ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Over against Swansey House, a little towards the hill, standeth an ancient fabric, once the manor house of Brindle, where hath been a chappel belonging to the same, and, a little above it, a spring of very clear water rushing straight upwards into the midst of a fayre fountain, ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wanderings in Brittany informs us that there is a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of this class at or near Barenton, to which peasants yet bring their children when ill of fever, having faith in the healing powers of the water. He thus describes the manner in which th... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Referring to this superstition, Mr. Hunt says:--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Once, and once only, have I paid a visit to this sacred spot. Then and there I found a lady drinking of the waters from her thimble, and eagerly contending with her husband that the right... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maddern or Madron Well, in Cornwall, and another, appear to be the only wells in that district that, like the one in Brindle, properly come under the designation of"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The curative properties of the former were held in very high repute. Bi... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In Madron Well--and, I have no doubt, in many others--may be found frequently the pins which have been dropped by maidens desirous of knowing 'when they were to be married.' I once witnessed the whole ceremony performed by a group of beautiful girls, who had walked on a May morn... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A MODERN SCOTCH WITCH.--On the 23rd of February, there died at Mill of Ribrae, parish of Forglen, Margaret Grant, at the advanced age of 69 years; and as she represented a class which is regarded as becoming very few in number in the present day, two or three remarks on the chie... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or the decoration of springs and fountains, yet very common in some counties, and especially in Derbyshire, and suggested that they owe their origin to the Roman Floralia, or to a still older custom, the common Aryan root of both. Crofton Croker speaks of the existence of"
},
... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It has been suggested that the early inhabitants of Switzerland may have worshipped the Lakes, and that the beautiful bracelets, etc., may have been offerings to the gods. In fact, it appears from ancient writers that among the Gauls, Germans, and other nations, many lakes were ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Prince and Power of the air is a favourite topic of rustic speculation. An old shepherd told me he had, when a boy, as good as seen him. 'I was,' said he, 'returning from school, and I stopped till the twilight groping trouts in a _burn, when a thunder storm came on_. I look... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "named"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Jenny Greenteeth"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Brother Fabian's Manuscript"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and his still quainter frog-like feet, all combine to leave a single harmonious emotional impression. This is further enhanced by the presence of the partially obscured moon and the solitary star, as well as the sedges and other plants, which, with the lonely bittern, (now extin... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not twenty years since the piercing shrieks and supplications for help, of a passage boat's company, which had been landed on a sandbank at low water, in the Solway Firth, instead of on the Cumberland coast, and who found, as the moon rose and the haze dispersed, that they... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Watches and white men also were at first regarded as deities; the latter, says Sir John Lubbock,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Dyaks of Saráwak regard the late Sir James Brooke as a species of deity. After explaining the conditions under which they lived previou... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Force and Nature,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In order to sustain this position, I might, were it admissible, adduce here, as collateral proof, an important and hitherto unpublished fact, of an archæological character, in addition to my geographical and geological... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Abyssinians are superstitious; they believe in the efficacy of amulets; of writings in jargon mixed with Scripture; in the charms of Mussulmans to control the hail and the rain; in spirits of the forest and the river; in omens; in fortune-tellers; and in devils that may be c... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Their religion was that naturally engendered in the undeveloped human mind by the contemplation of grand natural phenomena and the luxuriance of tropical nature. The burning mountain, the torrent and the lake, were the abode of their deities; and certain trees and birds were sup... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yet the strong tendency of all humanity to imitation of every kind, the"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "near Preston, the site of Cromwell's victory over the Duke of Hamilton, every human skull which is dug up or washed by the swollen river from out of its banks, is believed to pertain to a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Scotch warrior who fell in that battle. Scottish... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thames tunnel had, ages ago, been constructed beneath the bed of the Ribble and its broad valley, to enable the monks at Tulketh to communicate with the inmates of the priory on the opposite table land at Penwortham. In the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "History of P... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SAMSON MOHAMMEDAN.--At Miss Heraud's reading of 'Samson Agonistes,' the Rev. Henry Allon, who presided, mentioned a fact illustrative of the way in which tradition deals with ancient legends. As he stood on the site of the Temple of Gaza, two learned Mussulmans assured Mr. Allon... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even in the Veda, where _dyu_ occurs as a masculine, as an active noun, and discloses the same germs of thought which in Greece and Rome grew into the name of the supreme god of the firmament, Dyu, the deity, the lord of heaven, the ancient god of light, never assumes any powerf... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Edda, the title of the work which records the wild mythical cosmogony of the Scandinavian race, (a mixture of oriental and northern legend), means"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mother of Poetry. Language itself is largely made up of figures of speech, or as Jean Pau... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dyaus (Sky) father, and Prithivi (Earth) kind mother,[41] Agni (Fire) brother, ye Vasus (Bright ones) have mercy on us."
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shine for us with thy best rays, thou bright Dawn, thou who lengthenest our life, thou the love of all, who givest us wealth in cows, horses, and chariots."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To us it is clear that the story of Zeus descending as a golden rain into the pr... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "History of Sanscrit Literature,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is fabled that Prajâpati, the Lord of Creation, did violence to his daughter. But what does it mean? Prajâpati, the Lord of Creation, is the name of the sun; and he is called so because he protects all... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then join with these the Northern legends connected with the air. It does not matter whether you take Dorus as the son of Apollo or the son of Helen; he equally symbolises the power of light; while his brother Æolus, through all ... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Origin of Language, forcibly illustrates the figurative character of much of our ordinary every-day speech. He says,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The continual metaphors by which we compare our thoughts and emotions to the changes of the outer world--sadness to a... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pre-historic Times, says,--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nor will tradition supply the place of history. At best it is untrustworthy and short-lived. Thus in 1770 the New Zealanders had no recollection of Tasman's visit. Yet this took place in 1643, less than 130 y... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for ever"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "is the sheen Of April's sun, that, with a bridegroom's smile, Nestles in nature's breast of balmy green; With larks to sing a marriage song, the wh... |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Old Nick,"
}
] |
39934 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Raw head and bloody bones,"
}
] |
818207 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is no need to cock that pistol,"
}
] |
521991 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I said again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was astounded when I heard Rogers's story."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe you've had enough to drink, Captain? he suggested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe you'd like to come back another time?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I haven't had anything at all to drink, Mattern said curtly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're not a Far Planets man, she said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How come you know about me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you remember me, Lyddy? Then he cursed himself; first because he didn't want her to remember him as he had been; seco... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could've sworn there was somebody with him when he came in."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you see in the dark, Captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course not, no more than you can! Whatever made you ask that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--feel like somebody's looking at me."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you say anything, honey?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will you marry me, Lyddy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ask me again in the morning,"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you have anybody, Len? Relations, anything like that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have no relatives. I have nobody."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It would've been kind of nice to have a re... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Only four crewmen! Lyddy said, looking disappointed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must have a small ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not too small."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Y'know, hon, she whispered,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I keep having the funniest feeling there's somebody _extra_ here, somebody who doesn't belong. I haven't quite seen him; he always seems to slip by so fast, but I don't even think he's a man."
},
{
"f... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello there, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you coming to see me?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "N-no, sir. I was just coming in for a--a pack of Earth smokesticks. I can't stand those _stinking_ native brands! The boy spoke with a vicious... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're supposed to _enjoy_ Erytheia; it's a pleasure planet."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, the boy said, choosing his words with care,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'll probably be leaving soon, so you'll only have to stick it a little while l... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lyddy's aware of you, he told the shadows."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "She has no idea of what you are, of course. But she knows you're around, kqyres. She's half seen you and it's beginning to bother her. It's beginning to bother me, too."
},
{
"from": "h... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you are content with the woman? his partner asked anxiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are not disappointed with her in any way? She pleases you as much today as she did when first you set eyes on her?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of cour... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strange, he went on pensively,"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I still think someone must have told her where to stare, the shadow said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be absurd! Mattern snapped, outraged at the idea that his carefully kept secret might not be a secret at all."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've never made the Jump,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll never be a real spaceman until you do."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've heard tell that--things change their shapes in Hyperspace."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Maybe they d... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Federation law says we should have nothing to do with the creatures of hyperspace. If we leave them alone, they don't bother us."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Will we see them?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does a ship going through ordinary space see... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Haven't you any relatives at all?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not a one."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You saw nobody--nothing at the portholes, he told Mattern after that first Jump."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You just imagined it."
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't usually take crewmen from the Far Planets, the second officer said thoughtfully."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They don't have the training needed. But you're a good deckhand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The universe is opening up and soone... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do what we ask, the hyperspacers--the xhindi, they called themselves--said softly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But all I want is just one night!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that _all_ you want, _really_ all?"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you ever get sick of the _Perseus_, Lennie--sick of good food and hot water and decent quarters--you can always come to the _Valkyrie_. I'll take care of you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You want to leave the _Perseus_ for a berth on my ship! You're madder than... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One night won't be enough, and the honey-minded one had insisted,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You must want more than that. You _must_. Who could be satisfied with so little?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good-by, honey, Lyddy said as he left,"
},... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look, Pop, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whatever you say, Lennie. Figure on breaking out of this sector and moving in closer to Earth, do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not exactly. We're going into hyperspace."
},
{
"from": "gpt... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why do you want money so much, Lennie? Schiemann asked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do we need the big-time stuff for? It's nice and quiet and practically secure the way you've got things running for us, almost like we were honest businessmen. So why go looki... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go back!"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We--we can still go back, Schiemann said in a cracked voice; apparently the minds outside had not touched his."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Please, Lennie...."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, it's too late! Mattern cried. Once he went back, he would... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're in control,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We bid you welcome to our universe, Mattern, the xhindi said in his mind."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, follow us. We will lead you to the port on Ferr that we have made ready for you."
},
{
... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Coal into diamonds, Mattern found himself saying as he stared at Schiemann's pipe rolling on the empty corridor floor,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you think it's funny, do you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm afraid that I don't agree, Balas we... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have come so far, they said,"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come,"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am very sorry, she said,"
}
] |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You must learn, Mattern, that the concept of a ruler in this universe differs from the concept in yours. Here a ruler is the servant of her people, not their master. It is her obligation to take care of them, protect them, watch over them--in whatever way seems most fitting to h... |
51844 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Our Federation, like yours, is an artificial creation. Its laws are no more than arbitrary regulations, devised by the various peoples of each universe with regard to the greatest good of the majority, and thrust upon majority and minority alike."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
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