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32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even though we fail, said Rotark mournfully,"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When shall we tell the others?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go among them now, Tharn advised."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Explain our plan briefly, but cover every point. Warn them not to chance arousing suspicion among the guards. Everything depen... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have been wrong, princess, he admitted, with passable humbleness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As Urim's daughter, you are entitled to every respect and honor. From now on you may depend on being accorded both."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want ... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bring them to me, here,"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How may I, king of Sephar and Voice of the God, serve our noble visitors?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By granting us permission to set out for Ammad. Already have we delayed longer than was intended. To avoid the rainy season we should like to leave at once."
}
... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Would you start on so perilous a journey without first showing honor to your God? Tomorrow the Games begin. It would be wise to attend the first two days; otherwise misfortune may beset your path to Ammad."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Agreed, he responded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know that Jaltor, my king, will be greatly interested in an account of the lavishness of Sephar's Games."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait, Jotan of Ammad!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value"... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will gladly do as you have asked, Pryak of Ammad. Incidentally, there is a trifling favor you can grant me--if you will."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is this favor?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have become interested in one of the palace sl... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For a man who may be dead within a few hours, he said grimly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Would you have me seek out Pryak and beg for my life?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will show them how a real man fights! he declared."
},
{
"from": ... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That tall one is Wotar, director of the Games. He is no priest; and before Urim died, was one of Sephar's most powerful nobles. He has been Game director for a long time; and since he seems still in charge, must be high in Pryak's favor."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You,"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Goodbye, my friend. Katon's voice was sad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall watch for your return."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be back,"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No weapons, Wotar said briefly. He turned to the cave-man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You are to go directly to the arena's center and wait for whatever I send against you. Make a good fight of it and the crowd will be for you. That can mean much to you. If you m... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He would not go that way, one of them was saying."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In that direction are high hills, and beyond those are great mountains he could not hope to pass."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We do not know that he came even this far, ... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O Voice of the God, said Jotan,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As you wish, Jotan, he said, rising and placing his hands on the other's shoulders."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ask of the God a safe and uneventful journey for you and your men. And to... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Jotan said, motioning to the balance of those in his party."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We start at once for Ammad."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get ready, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The guards are due here any minute. Listen at the door, Katon; when you hear them, let us know."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They come!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What means this? Wotar thundered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is there so little fighting in the arena that you must brawl amongst yourselves?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "These men, he panted, indicating the scowling faces about him,"
},
{
... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had forgotten the report that he would fight in the arena. Since he enlisted in the Games only to display his bowmanship, he may withdraw at any time. Watch him constantly, for he is our greatest danger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tharn, I remember, now, that y... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Careful now! They are starting this way again! Maltor is no fool; he is trying to coax us into wasting arrows."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give him a hunting-knife--and nothing else, he said finally."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So far this man has had an easy time of it. Now we shall learn just how much of a fighter he really is!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give him arrows and a bow!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man can kill a lion with a knife!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Death to Pryak!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He lives!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give each man a bow, ten arrows and a spear."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell them the way is open to this room. Caution all to silence, that none overhears us and warns those we hope to surprise."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come forward now--three each time. Once within the arena, take the places I give you."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What means this? he asked of Orbar."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Does Wotar mean to end the Games with one battle? There are too many men on the sands; send someone to investigate."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Urim would have enjoyed this! he said, and his smile widened."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, on to the palace and the temple to clean out the rest of Pryak's men. That done, the city is ours!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, then, he remarked;"... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did Pryak's God save these priests who lie about us, here, their bodies cut by our spears and knives? Did He, seeing Pryak in danger, hide him with His sky-fire? No; they were men like us; and since they deserved to die, they _did_ die! Pryak is next!"
},
{
"from": "gpt"... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Father!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kill!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We have searched long for you, my son, said the chief."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At times we were close to giving up; it was not until yesterday that one of us found where you and a girl had followed a game trail leading to this place."
},
{
"from": "hum... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No one tried to stop us. In fact, we saw no one at all. I was beginning to wonder if we were the only ones here until we heard sounds of fighting coming from here. The rest you know."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Soon I shall tell you what I have gone through since ... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This, Tharn said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dylara probably is in the slave quarters, Katon said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will come with me, I will lead you there."
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nada!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tharn--my mate!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, Nada said at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I did not know, admitted her mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you, Tharn?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I never dreamed you were in Sephar. As a matter of fact, we came here... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is one among you who has every right to rule over you. He, himself, is the son of a king--one who understands all those things expected of a ruler. That man is Katon of Huxla!"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So, Pryak, cried the hawk-faced one,"
}
] |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have come back to us, Tharn,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How long have I lain here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Half a moon."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Half a--!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Tharn! cried... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must leave you here, said young Tharn."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Within a few suns--a moon, at most--I will return. Dylara will be with me."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your mother and I leave for home before long. We shall wait there for you a... |
32462 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will come back?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, said the man, his own voice strong and very certain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will come back."
}
] |
505432 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Forsooth, art up betimes, my lord Duke,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And every week you opened your hoard Of truthful and tasteful tales-- How you sat on the knees of the Laureate Lord, How you danced with the Prince of Wales-- And we knew that the Sunday Times had scored In Literature and Sales."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sunday Times."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Vot I maig for myself, dat I keeb, _nicht?_"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It will leave me, she said, with perfect calm and in words that have since become historical,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Christian Year"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gehenna, 1 double 7, 6."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One cocktail doesn't make a swallow."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frivolity, and her career ended, as might have been expected, in a shocking _mésalliance_. She married the Marquis of Beanstrite, and has more than once appeared on the back page of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Daily Mail,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's nothing in it, Marge, he said to me one evening."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's only one sure way to win--back every horse in the race with another man's money. I tell a customer the tale that I was shaving a well-known trainer that morning, and that ... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bedad."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Puts you wrong, Day and night."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wore the shortest of tweed skirts, knickerbockers of the same stuff, top-boots, a cover-coat, and a coloured scarf round my head."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better not, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks to me like rain."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you have an umbrella,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Aye, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I said."
},
... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lloyd George! Lloyd George!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, face,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marge, Marge, more Marge!"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maud"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert..."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His head was bare, his matted hair Was buried in the sand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And everywhere that Mary went--... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now it's your turn to go out, and we'll think of something."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Which?"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Which?"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Is it, indeed? said the Poet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you turn to the left on leaving the house, the second on the right will take you straight to the station."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have interested me--er--profoundly. May I hope that when you get back to Grosvenor Square, you will sometimes spare a few moments from the fashionable circles in which you move, and write to me?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope, he added,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've got chunks of it in a writing-case at my rooms, he said,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In reply to your inquiry, I never read 'Robert Elsmere,' but understand from a private source that it saved many young men from reading 'David Grieve.' Your second inquiry as to the lady-love of my first youth is violent--very violent. Suppose you mind your own business."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is not that, m'lord, said Bunting."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is a question of principle. Your lordship's expressed views as to Ireland are not, if I may say so, the views of my friends and of myself. And on that subject we feel deeply. Preoccupied with tha... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when for aid he ceased to beg, The wily devil broke his leg."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He is, said Mr. Bunting,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and said that one word in the question was"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If a cockney nurse wished to correct a child, what insect-home would she name?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you had never corrected a naughty boy before, where would you corr... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have an adoration for One person only, namely _je_."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "After her dance, Salome, curtseying, fell, And shocked the Baptist with her scream of 'Bother!'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can only speak definitely for myself, b... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My first a man is, and my next a trap; My whole's forbidden, lest it cause trouble."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "; the missing rhyme is"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the Great War new weapons bade us forge, Whom did the nation trust? 'Twas thou, Asquith!"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When history's hand corrects the current myth, Whose name will she prefer? 'Tis thine, Lloyd George."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are here to-day, and gone at the end of our month."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of verse seven.[A] Millie Wyandotte was malicious and unintelligent; she looked well in white, but was too heavily built for my taste. I may add, as evidence of my impartiality, that... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Grammar was no doubt made for slaves--not for the brilliant and autobiographical. All the same, a prize should be offered to anybody who can find the missing"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was in May 28, 1913. The hour was 1.38.5 Greenwich Time, and I shall never forget it. You were sixteen then, and the effect as you came into the room was quintessential. Suddenly the sunlight blazed, the electric light went on automatically till the fuses gave way, the chimne... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "does mean"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marge, she said,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Marguerite"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Matter of fact, there was a bit of private business I wanted a word with you about. This boat's too full of what I call riff-raff. Mouth-organs. Bad taste. Can't hear yourself speak. But we get an hour at Ramsgate, and if you'll take a snack with me there, I can tell you what I'... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That girl, Marge, will get into the newspapers. It may be in the Court News, and it may be in the Police-court News. That will depend on which she prefers. But she'll get there, and she'll stick there!"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anybody who married Marge, said Birsch,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I suppose not, said Millie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'd be more likely to commit suicide at the end of one."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good morning. I think I could be of some service to this company as an advertisement."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sure you could, said the manager."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If you will kindly wait a moment while the boy fetches the step-la... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This gentleman, the notice ran,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shows you he's real, don't it? At one time I thought it was only a dummy."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Like your job?"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sunday Times,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hello, Marge! Got into the newspapers at last?"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course not. Why should you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't know whether you're aware of it, but you've got three split infinitives in your City article."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Called for the reconciliation, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just open this area gate, will you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "At this time of night? I called, in a tense whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Certainly not."
}... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you think of that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hugo, I said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've known some bounders in my time, but not one who could have done that."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Police."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm just going to have a look in your kitchen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No use, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The rabbit-pie was finished yesterday."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Saucy puss, ain't you?"
},
{
"from"... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Society in London is very so-so at present, and we leave for Scotland at the end of the week. His lordship's had one fit of his tantrums, but I had a look in my eye that ipsum factum soon put an end to it. I wish it was as easy to put a stop to his leaning to third-class company... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't approve of women in the profession, and you'd better cut it out. It's hard enough for a man bookmaker to scrape a living, with everybody expecting the absurd prices quoted in the press."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I am Napoleon. Oh, that's you, Chlorine, is it?... Quite well, thank you, but find the heat rather oppressive.... You want my opinion of your sister Marge? She is wonderful--wonderful! Tell her from me that if I had but married her when I was a young man, I am confident tha... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The more I see of your sister Marge, the more I regret the time that I spent on Mrs. Siddons, who was also theatrical; my compliment that I should go down to posterity on the hem of her garment was not ill-turned, but she is more likely to go down to posterity as the subject of ... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What, what? You said 'Marge'--not 'marriage'--your sister Marge? You should speak more clearly. Get nearer the receiver--age plays havoc with the hearing. Fine woman, Marge, and you can tell her I said so. Great spirit. Plenty of courage. Always admired courage. If I were a youn... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "or"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not propose to treat myself like Mr. Bernard Shaw in this account."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I do not propose to treat myself as Mr. Bernard Shaw treats himself."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have got china, books, whips, knives, matchboxes, and clocks given me since I was a small child."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it is incredible that she should have thought of two ways of saying the same thing, ... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Sunday Times,"
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Light Brigade"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Half a moment, said the Dean."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I know that one. No--can't get it. Why was the hotel called that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because of its terrific ch... |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Marge, for your kind words. They will help me to improve myself."
}
] |
26024 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're quite right to bob your hair, Popsie. When you have not got enough of anything, always try to persuade people that you want less. But your rouge-et-noir make-up is right off the map. If you could manage to get some of the colours in some of the right places, people would ... |
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