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30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The weapons on Gilgamesh were disarmed when she was rediscovered, he says."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Essential sections were removed. The Incognitans won't be able to reconstruct how they worked."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About that other point, girlie, surely there must be some neutral ground left on a half-occupied planet like that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The thing is,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The thing is, it will have to be neutral ground of course, onl... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drop her into the sea!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, he says,"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This place, says the colonel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--the stereo jigs as he taps his projector--"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Earth,"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Personal Background Sets"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh it's you, Lizzie. You'll have to help me out of this. I'm stuck."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help me count these, will you?"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There ought to be twenty-three."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, says M'Clare dreamily,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What on earth is the use of an extra set of faked documents and oddments--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you d... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come along, Lizzie. Here's where we take orders for once, you and I."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Five."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The function of the hopper is to pick up the pilot of _Gilgamesh_ and also to check that ground appearances are consistent. If not, they will produce a landslip on the cliff edge, using power tools and explosives carried for the purpose. That is why the hopper has a crew of thre... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pilot will carry a one-frequency low-power transmitter activated by the change in magnetic field on leaving the ship. The hopper will remain at five hundred feet until this signal is received. It will then pick up the pilot, check ground appearances, and rendezvous with this... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Danger (b) will be dealt with as follows. The rocket-mounts being of peltathene will be destroyed by half an hour's immersion in water. The installations in the nose will be destroyed with Andite."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Six. The pilot of _Gilgamesh_ will wear a spacesuit of the pattern used by the original crew and will carry Personal Background Set number 23. Should he fail to escape from the ship the crew of the hopper will on no account attempt to rescue him."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Me too, colonel! I volunteer!"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Piloting _Gilgamesh_, he says."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm not asking for volunteers now. You'll go to your cabins in four hours' time and those who want to will volunteer, secretly. To a computer hookup, Computer will select on a random basis and notify the o... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Lee, says Cray, dragging it out longer than ever,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So you weren't picked for pilot? It was only one chance in ten."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, says Cray,"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Calling _Gilgamesh_. Calling the hopper. Good-by and Good luck. You're on your own."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There you are, girlies! He's down!"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But it wasn't a meteor. It can't have been."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It doesn't matter what it was, I say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was some sort of missile, I think. They must be even nearer to war than we thought."
},
{
"from": ... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, Lizzie. We can't. Don't you remember? If we got caught, it would give everything away. Besides ... there isn't any chance--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take a look at the screen,"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The antigrav, whispers B."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The Andite hasn't blown yet."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten minutes, says Mr. Yardo thoughtfully. He turns to me with sudden briskness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's that, ... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, Lizzie. I guess we have to try it. Things certainly can't be much worse than they are. We'll go over to the beach there."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to crawl the last few yards of shingle into the water and on across the sea bottom till I am beyond the line of breakers; then I turn on the motor. I have already set the controls to"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and grapple on to the break. I now have somehow to get the hind set of"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lizzie. Golden Liz."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Liz! Oh, God, I thought ... what--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Something hit the ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A homing missile, I think."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now you see the switch under the pointer? Is your boat ready? I beg your pardon, of course you left it that way. Then turn the switch and get out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Lizzie, you little idiot, don't you realize that even if you get me out of this ship, whi... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please, Lizzie--can't you understand that the worst nightmare in the whole affair has been the fear that one of you might get injured? Or even killed? When I realized that only one person was needed to pilot _Gilgamesh_--it was the greatest relief I ever experienced. Now you say... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You know, Lizzie, I dislike risking the lives of any of the students for whom I am responsible, but as it happens I find the idea of you--blowing yourself to atoms particularly objectionable because ... I happen to be in love with you. You're also one of my best students, I used... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How--"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is M'Clare--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Eighteen twenty-seven, girls!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "M'Clare? How's M'Clare?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "M'Clare? He's dead."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hello, Lizzie. Awake at last?"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lizzie! Are you hurt? Where the devil have they all got to? Liz!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They said you were _dead_!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ... I ... someone in the hold. I said How's M'Clare? and they said you were dead."
},
{
"... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hey! Cut that out!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you start that, Lysistrata. I've been suffering the attentions of the damnedest collection of amateur nurses who ever handled a thermocouple, for over a week. I don't deny they've been very efficient, but when i... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hell's feathers, it was _you_!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It was your voice! When I asked--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lizzie, I believe you're right. I have a sort of vague memory of someone asking how I was--and I gave what I took to be a trut... |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's been no mention in any newscast of anyone seeing fairies or sea maidens--I expect the poor devil thinks you were a hallucination."
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lizzie. Just before my well-meant but ineffective attempt at suicide--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I talked nonsense, did I?"
}
] |
30427 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could have made you love me, Lizzie. I could! I didn't try. Not that I didn't want love on those terms, or any terms. But to use professional ... tricks ... in private life, ends by destroying all reality. I always treated you exactly as I treated my other students--I think. B... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Happy Springs of Tunbridge."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Ingoldsby Legends."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of that and earlier ages. Captain Johnson, who stole extensively from Smith, who himself was prone to include the most extravagant myths in his pages, calls his folio A GENERAL AND TRUE HISTORY OF THE LIVES AND ACTIONS OF THE MOST FAMOUS HIGHWAYMEN. Both of them include pirates ... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HAND OF GLORY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CAVALIER"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHO GOES HOME?"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "CLIBBORN'S POST"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "ROARING GIRL"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "PRINCE OF PRIGS"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GENTLEMAN"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "OLD MOB"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "RECANTATION"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HAND OF GLORY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "OPEN LOCK, TO THE DEAD MAN'S KNOCK"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "WHO GOES HOME?"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "BOWL"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "THERE HE SWINGS BY THE ROADSIDE, IN HIS CAGE, IN A CONTEMPLATIVE ATTITUDE, AS THOUGH PONDERING ON THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE AND DEATH"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "SHELLING THE PEAS"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "OLD MOB"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A Terrible and Seasonable Warning"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Clibborn's Post"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life and Confession of Jonathan Wild and four other Malefactors"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Execution Bell,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Protracture"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here now thou seest me as a Butcher's Boy"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Next; here am I presented to thy view"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Stand and Deliver! next in order comes"
},
{
... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Knights of the Road,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand and deliver!"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Half-Hours with the Footpads."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charley,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was a fine cigar, sir, you gave me the other day."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, replied Peace,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you? rejoined the man, with a laugh at the absurdity of such a statement from a customer so apparently respectabl... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If we have here and there brought in some of these wicked Offenders venting a prophane Oath or curse, which is dash'd (much is left to the imagination in a ——)"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Probably there was a Gamaliel Ratsey, highwayman, hanged then and there; but the adventures related of him are almost certainly inventions: well invented, but told without the slightest scintilla of literary merit. Yet this ragbag stuff has figured in reprints of"
},
{
"... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thomas Dun. We may be in some reasonable doubt as to the validity of many incidents and biographies in the pages of Smith and Johnson, but there is no possible doubt whatever that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Life of Thomas Dun is what one of our own eighteenth... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "prefaced to Thomas Dun's entirely apocryphal adventures is itself worth reproducing. It says:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A man who is not forced from necessity or a desire of pleasure to become dishonest, but follows his natural dispositions in robbing and maltre... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dunstaplia, as the town was named, _i.e._ the"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dun's Stable, a hollow in the chalk downs, pointed out as having been the place where"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dun,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When two executioners approached him he warned them of their danger if they should lay hands on him,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His hands were first chopped off at the wrist; then his arms at the elbows; next, about an inch from the shoulders; his feet below the ankles; his legs at the knees; and his thighs about five inches from the trunk. The horrible scene was then concluded by severing his head from ... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robin Hood's Butts"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robin Hood's Butts in the country: his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cairns on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robin Hood's Bay, on the Yorkshire Coast; his"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Barrows, near Whitby... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rory o' the Hills."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can ryme of Robin Hode."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "nor to any good yeoman, nor to any knight or squire"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he delights in persecuting ecclesiastical dignitaries. A fat abbot, or a steward of a monastery, unlucky enough to fall in with him, has a weary time of it. The higher these personages... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of Robin Hood,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Friend, said she,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I entrust to your loyalty the son of your King."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "which is said to mean a horse's skin. Guy found him at last, with disastrous results to himself, for Robin slew him and mangled his body with what is particularly described as an"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Irish knife. He then clothed himself in the"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pay you, ere you wend! says Robin;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go search, commands Robin to Little John."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If, sir, you have no more, he says to the knight,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I will not have a pen... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What will ye gyve more? said the justice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the knight shall make a release; And elles dare I safly swere Ye never hold your lande in pees."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "An hundred pounde sayd the Abbot; The justice sai... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robin Hood receives them, but they have not long returned when Little John plans to capture the sheriff himself, on his way home. The seizure is easily made, and the sheriff is taken to the foresters' camp, where supper is served to him on his own plate. He is then stripped to h... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Robin Hood is raised."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Great horns 'gan they to blow"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Edward the Third, at Nottingham, come to inquire into a complaint the sheriff had made against the knight for harbouring outlaws. The King, for a whole year, endeavours to capture Robin or the knight, but has no sort of success until a forester offers, if the King will assume th... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Smite boldly! says Robin;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I give thee large leave."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alas! and well-a-way If I dwell longer with the King, Sorowe wyll me slay,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "True Tale of the hero, c. 1632. It still, however, imposes upon the credulous and supports the somewhat sweeping saying current in Camden's time:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tales of Robin Hood are good for fools."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought my rochet should have been regarded, though I were not, added Latimer, plaintively;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is no laughing matter, my friends, but rather a weeping matter, a heavy matter, under the pretence of gathering for Robin Hood, a traitor, ... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ancient Order of Foresters,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "HAND OF GLORY"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and entirely unromantic bands of robbers, murderers, and footpads swarmed over the country, and robbed and slew with comparatively little fear of the law, were also extremely superstitious days. Good men and bad were alike... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now mount who list, And close by the wrist, Sever me quickly the Dead Man's fist! Now climb who dare Where he swings in air, And pluck me five locks of the Dead Man's hair!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "HAND OF GLORY"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now open lock To the Dead Man's knock! Fly bolt, and bar, and band! Nor move, nor swerve, Joint, muscle, or nerve, At the spell of the Dead Man's hand! Sleep, all who sleep!—Wake, all who wake!— But be as the Dead, for the Dead Man's sake!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Achilles' heel of civilisation. The country (often in later years we find it"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Between sun and sun,"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But nevertheless, the section continues,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "CAVALIER"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In his youthful days, says Aubrey,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ")"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I take your offer, and will live with you; Provided that you do no outrages On silly women, or poor passengers."
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sir John à Wrotham is made to introduce himself to the audience, by frankly acknowledging he was,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "we doubtless have the real mental attitude of the"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "—as they were pleased to fancifully style t... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To beg is base, as base as pick a purse; To cheat, more base of all theft—that is worse. Nor beg nor cheat will I—I scorn the same; But while I live, maintain a soldier's name. I'll purse it, I,—the highway is my hope; His heart's not great that fears a little rope."
},
{
... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "urging them to activity in the apprehension of all robbers, and promising high rewards for everyone captured. To this a Royalist print, the _Man in the Moon_, sarcastically rejoined that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "House of Robbers —by which the House of Commo... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "; as witness Thomas Hill, executed July 19th, 1694. Was he penitent at Tyburn? Not at all. His last words were,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless all my friends, and let all my enemies be hanged as I am ; and, adds his biographer"
}
] |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In this condition, Mr. Constable, the Minister of the Parish, was sent for, and Mr. Symons, who Pray'd by him till the time was over when he had promis'd to meet the Person he had seen, and Mr. Constable and the other Divines us'd many Prayers and exhortations with him, and at l... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment hold! the mother cries,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His life one moment spare, One kiss, my miserable child, My Robert, once so dear!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Blame not the law which dooms your son, Compar'd with you 'tis mild; 'Tis ... |
53111 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Twelve Notorious Highway Men, Murderers, and Clippers of Money"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Bracy, evidently superior to most of the gang, Richard Piggen, Roger Brookham, another superior person, one"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr."
},
{
... |
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