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12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four scimitars added to our equipment will be useful, at close quarters, he opined very coolly, unmindful of the dull uproar now battering at the inner door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pick up the cutlery, men, and don't forget the admirable qualities of the _arme blanche_!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Very fine I call it! he exclaimed, with a joyful laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some little game of tag, what? And our Moslem friends are still 'it!' We're still ahead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And likely to be, till our friends bring powder, mine that door, and blow it in! The Master added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We've still a few minutes--maybe more. Now, then--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the lieutenant's orderly was vociferating. They saw his distorted, torture-broken hand wildly gesticulating toward the floor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My Lieutenant, behold!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In the name of God, what now? Leclair demanded, scimitar in hand. The silver lamps struck high-lights from that gleaming blade, as he turned toward his orderly. Never had he seen the man seized and shaken by excitement as at this moment."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What hast thou found, Lebon? What?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But behold--behold!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, men, said he, in even tones."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here it is, at last. We're seeing something no Feringi ever saw before--the hidden treasure of Jannati Shahr!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Arabian Nights,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Leclair kept monotonously repeating."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's true, then--partly true. Rrisa knew part of it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hardly think the Caliph el Walid's gold was ever brought to Jannati Shahr, he answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coals to Newcastle, you know. And these jewels are not all uncut. Some are finely faceted, some uncut. But in the main Rrisa spoke the truth. He told what he believed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, assented the woman. Then she added:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Spartan simplicity, is it not? No elaborate coffers. Not even leather sacks. Just bins, like so much wheat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The shining wheat of Araby!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of the whole Orient!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, men, the Master laughed dryly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How do you know they've been destroyed? the major cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do you know but what we'll be rescued, here?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We've got to fight this thing through, unaided. And at any rate, we don't have to limit ourselves to a peck or two of jewels. We've got them all, now--or they've got us!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come on, then, boys! Fill up!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop! cried the Master, sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No nonsense, now!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drop those jewels, sir!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Principally because I order you to! The Master's voice was cold, incisive."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're worthless, now. No make-weights! We can't have make-weights at a time like this. To think of jewels at such an hour! Throw them back!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Never! he shouted, crouching there at the brink of the jewel-pit."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Call it insubordination, mutiny, anything you like, but I'm going to have my fill of these! Faith, but I _will_, now!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sir--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't give a damn! Jewels for mine! His voice rose gusty, raw, wild."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been a soldier of fortune all my life, and that's how I'm going to die. Poor, most of the time. Well, I'm going to die rich!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's all right, dying. That was in the bargain, if it had to be done. Two-thirds of us are dead, already, a damn sight better men than I am! We've been dying right along, from the beginning of this crack-brained Don Quixote crusade. That's all right. But, faith! now that it's my turn to die, by the holy saints I'm going to be well paid for it!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's all right, you reaching for your gun! he defied the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Go ahead, shoot! I'm rich already. My pockets are half full. Shoot, damn you, shoot!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This, said he quite calmly,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shoot, if you want to--a few minutes more or less don't matter. But, faith, I'll die a millionaire, and that's something I never expected to be. Fine, fine! Give me a minute more, and I'll die a multi-millionaire! Sure, imagine that, will you? Major Aloysius Bohannan, gentleman-adventurer, a multi-millionaire! That's what I'll be, and the man don't live that can stop me now!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's quite immaterial, after all, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I led you into this. And now it's very nearly a case of _sauve qui peut_. The sooner your pockets are full, to the extreme limit, the sooner something like reason will return to you. Jewels being of interest to a man at death's door--it's quite characteristic of you, Bohannan. Help yourself!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thanks, I will! Bohannan flung up at him, blood-drabbled face pale and drawn by the flaring lamplight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A _multi_-millionaire! Death? I should worry! Help myself? Faith, I just will, that!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Anyone else, here, feel so disposed? the Master inquired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If so, get it over and done with. We've got fighting ahead, and we'd better quench whatever thirst there is for wealth, first."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You're all a pack of damned fools! Bohannan sneered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You could die richer than Rockefeller, every man-jack of you, and you--you don't want to! Sure, it's _you_ that's mad, not me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I prefer loading my automatic, to loading my pockets! Odd, the major is, eh? Ah well, _à chacun sa chimère!_"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Everybody's weapons fully loaded? the Master demanded."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Be sure they are! And don't forget the mercy-bullets, men. These Arabs are rather ingenious in their tortures. They make a specialty of crucifying unbelievers--upside down. That sort of thing won't do, for us not for fighting-men of the Legion!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now I'm satisfied, he remarked in more rational tones."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I reckon I must be worth more money, as I stand here, than any human being that ever lived. You're looking at the richest man in the world, gentlemen! And I'm going to die, the richest. If that's not some distinction, what is? For a man that was bone-poor, fifteen minutes ago! Now, sir--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here! Look here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What is it?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What now?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Light, here!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A passage, eh?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Maybe a _cul-de-sac_, she answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--there's no telling--it may lead somewhere."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By Allah! Men! Here--all of you!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, what the devil now? exclaimed Bohannan, now seeming quite rational, as he peered into the cramped corridor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where to Hell does this lead?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Just where you've said, to Hell, it's far more than likely, the Master retorted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, men, into it! Follow me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is a devil of a place for a multi-millionaire, I must say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This seems to be a regular labyrinth, my Captain, said Leclair, in French."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Surely a trap of some kind. They are clever, these Arabs. They let the mouse run and hope, then--_voilà_--he is caught!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It looks that way. But we're not caught yet. These infernal passageways are all alike, to me. We must choose one. Well--this is as good as any. He gestured toward an aperture at the left."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Men, follow me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, but I think we'd better be getting back! exclaimed the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't care much for this heat, or that roaring noise that's getting louder all the time!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You'll follow me, or I'll shoot you down! the Master flung at him, crouching around."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've had enough insubordination from _you_, sir! Not another word!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No way out of _here_! Bohannan grumbled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, we're at the end o' nowhere. Now if we'd only taken another passage--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wine-sacks, by the living jingo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wine-sacks--in a Moslem city? demanded the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What else are these, sir?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, by Allah!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sacrificial wine, put in Leclair, at his elbow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See the red seals, with the imprint of the star and crescent, here and here? He touched a seal with his finger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rare old wine, I'll wager!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wine! gulped the major, whose excitable nerves had been frayed to madness."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Wine, by God! Faith, but it's the royal thirst I have on me! Who's got a knife?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We of the Flying Legion are going to die, sober men! There'll be no debauchery--no tradition handed down among those Moslem swine that they butchered us, drunk. If any of you men want to die right now, broach one of those wine-sacks!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's something! he exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Look at this ring, will you?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out, men! the Master cautioned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This may be a trap that will swing open and drop us into God knows what! Stand back, all--take your time, now! Go slow there!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a trap-door, all right, he announced."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And we--are going to open it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One would need a rope or a long lever to do that, my Captain, put in Leclair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is obvious that a man, or men, standing on the trap, could not raise it. And it is too large to straddle."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get hold, everybody! he commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And be sure you're not standing on the trap!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, two, three! from the Master, the Legionaries threw all their muscle into the lift."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, men! Heave her once more!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heave her!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, what is it? demanded Bohannan, also squinting down, as he bent over the hole."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you see?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, the Master answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing definite."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, an underground river of hot water! ejaculated the Irishman with an oath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Some river!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Warm water, at any rate, the Master judged, getting up again. A strange smile was in his eyes, by the smoky lamplight."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, men, this is our way out. The Arabs are not going to have any slaughter of victims, here. And what is more, they'll capture no dead bodies of white men, in _this_ trap! There'll be at least ten skulls missing from that interesting golden Pyramid of Ayeshah!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For God's sake! the major stammered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What--what are you going to--do, now? Jump down that shaft?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Exactly. Your perspicacity does you credit, Major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, you'll never catch _me_ jumping!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Gentlemen, the Master said, in a low, quiet voice,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I regret to state that we have one coward among us."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you jump, voluntarily, demanded he,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You win, sir, he answered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who goes first?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "exulted Leclair."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, now our men, they attack the city!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sorry to disillusion you, the Master answered,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wait a minute! cried"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden. Her eyes were gleaming through the mask, with keen excitement."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why neglect any chance of possibly surviving?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you mean?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those wine-sacks!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Emptied, inflated, and tied up again, they'll float us! It's the oldest kind of device used in the Orient!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "By Allah, inspiration! Quick, men, the wine-skins!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, faith now, but that's a damned shame, sir! Bohannan protested, rubbing an ugly welt on his brow. His voice was thick, dull, unnatural. Madness glimmered in his blinking eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With the blessed tongue of me parched to a cinder! And wine like that! Here, sir--take a handful of diamonds, or whatever, and give me just one little drink!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the Master ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you can't handle him, get help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The major is right, sir, in spite of all! Good wine in our throats would make death less bitter. 'We who are about to die, salute thee'--and ask wine!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But the confusion of wine may just turn the scale against our getting through. No wine! We started on that basis. That's the basis we're going through on. No wine, I say--no wine!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come, quick now! Prepare a sack, apiece! I'll show you how!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get to work, men! he ordered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To work!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Whatever comes to us, men, judged he,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They took our blood, he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We have taken theirs--and their wine, too. And have destroyed Myzab and the Black Stone, no doubt. Well, it's a bargain!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "C'est égal! exclaimed Leclair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "More than that, eh, my Captain?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, give me your hand, each one, and--down the shaft with you!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notre Père qui êtes aux cieux!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, so long, boys! This is jolly beastly, eh? But we'll meet on that beautiful shore!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Vive la France!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're next, Major!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm ready! exclaimed the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sure, what's better than a hot bath after the heavy exercise we've been having? His voice rose buoyantly over the drumming roar of the mysterious, underground torrent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ready, sir! But if you'll only give me one wee sup of good liquor, sir, I'll die like an Irishman and a gentleman--of fortune!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, liquor, Major, the Master answered, shaking his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you see for yourself all the wine-sacks are cut?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cut, is it? Well, well, so they are! The major blinked redly. Obviously his confused mind had not grasped the situation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, sure, that's a pity, now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come Major, you're next! the Master bade him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take your wine-skin and jump!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Captain Alden,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's a fine whirl we've had, he affirmed, with one of his old-time smiles, his teeth gleaming by the light of the silver lamp in the Master's hand."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No man could ask a better."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please overlook any little irregularities of conduct, sir My brain, you know, and--well, good-bye!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, said the Master, when"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden and he remained alone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now--you and I!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, the woman answered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and I, at last!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If not, you die as one. But the disguise is done with, and gone. You understand me!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. I understand,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand, she repeated."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If this is death, I couldn't have dreamed or hoped for a better one. In that, at least, we can be eternally together--you and I!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In all the years of my life and in all my wanderings up and down this world, I have never seen a woman--till now--whom I felt that I could love. I have lived like an anchorite, celled in absolute isolation from womankind. Incredible as it may seem to you, I have never even kissed a woman, with a kiss of love. But--I am going to kiss you, now."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, go! he commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall follow, close. And wait for me--if there is any waiting!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now--good-bye!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many a corpse has been flung down this _oubliette_, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hate to go, without emptying my pistol into a few more of the Moslem swine, and dropping them down here to join my people. But--I must!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "La Siwa Hu --that is to say, the land"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rock of Hell."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Captain Alden"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let us rest a little while, _mon capitaine_, said he in a hoarse, choking voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rest, and drink again. I know the desert. Many hundreds of miles lie between us and the coast. Nothing can be gained by hastening, at first. All may be lost. Let us rest, at all events, until that cursed sun has set!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, but it's strange how even the five of us found each other, out there in the sand, said the major."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What happened to the rest of us, God knows--maybe! He choked, coughed, added:"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or to the boys with Nissr. God rest their souls! I wish I had a sackful of that wine! After a long pause:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't you, now? What?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no! she protested."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No special favors for me! I'm not a woman, remember. I'm 'Captain Alden,' still--only a Legionary!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If you favor me in any way, to the detriment of any of the others or your own, I won't go on! I'm just one of you. Just one of the survivors, on even terms with the rest. It's give-and-take. I mean that! You've got to understand me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Time to drink again, _n'est-ce pas_, my Captain? asked he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Drink to the dead!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hope they are dead, rather than prisoners! exclaimed the Master."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we'll drink, and get forward. We've got to make long strides, tonight. Those Jannati Shahr devils may be after us, tomorrow. Surely will, if they investigate that delta and find only a few bodies. They'll conclude some of us have got through. And if they pick up our trail, with those white dromedaries of theirs--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sacred pigs! ejaculated Leclair."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, _messieurs_, now you begin to know the Arabs as I have long known them."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No wine! he croaked,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He slapped one hard pocket."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd swap the lot for a proper pair of shoes and a skin o' that wine! Faith--that wine, now--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hark! she whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sh!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What now?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bells! Camel-bells!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "From the west! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is no pursuit! It is a caravan going to Jannati Shahr!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Faith, but Allah is being good to us! he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now, when it comes to a fight--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten dromedaries--no, nine--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And six camel-drivers, put in the woman, gun in hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A small caravan!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hold your fire, all! commanded the Master."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're headed right across this wady. Wait till I give the word; then rush them! And--no prisoners!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "WHERE THERE IS NONE BUT ALLAH"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think, the Master gasped,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He squinted at the crimson and purple banderoles of cloud through which, like the eye of a fevered Cyclops, the sun was already glowering. Already the range of obsidian hills ahead of them, the drifted sands all fretted with wind-waves, the whole iron plain of the desert was quivering with heat."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Every hour counts, now. Before we start, let us agree to certain things."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Listen, he commanded."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must strictly ration the food and water. You must help me keep to that ration. I will help you. We must be careful about scorpions. Above all, we must beware of mirages. You understand?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If either of us sees palms or water, that one must immediately tell the other. Then, if the other does not also see them, that is a mirage. We must not turn aside for anything like that, unless we both see it. I am speaking rationally, now that I can. Remember what I say!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now that we can still think, we must weigh every contingency. Our only hope lies in our helping each other. Alone, either of us will be led away by mirages in a little while. That kind of death must be spared us. We both live or die, together."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think I would leave you, she asked,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us go!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is a bullet, said she chokingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can cut this in two and shape it. We can reload two shells with some of the Arab powder. It will do!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take it! Drink, drink your fill! She will never know. Take it, and drink!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here is water--real water! Drink!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This may be an insane waste, he was thinking,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, my God! There's one, now! he muttered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A green one--cool--fresh--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Cool--_fresh_--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come to me--and die!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Have you drunk, too?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Of course!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You are not--telling me the truth."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So help me God! His fevered lips could hardly form the words."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, in the hut--I drank. All I needed."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thálassa! Thálassa!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Most terrible of all is--the desert--for it is full-of a great want."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A great want! he repeated."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A great--"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Water! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let us drink again--and go on!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You drank nothing. You are trying to save water for me!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Will you drink?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I tell you--I have drunk!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Drink, now, or I pour all this on the ground!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bara Miyan! Violator of the salt!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must remember to ask them if there wasn't a woman, thought he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "This is an extraordinary place! People come and go in such a manner!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This is the best mirage, yet, he reflected."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The palms look real. And the water--it sparkles. Those white blotches--one would say they were houses!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll ask the people in those houses, down there,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There was a woman, then! he gasped."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But--where is she now?"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "By God! he croaked."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mirages--they don't last, this way! That's real--that's real water, by the living God!"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he cried."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The invincible Orient! she said, all at once."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It absorbs everything and gives back nothing. And we thought, we hoped, we might conquer part of it! Well--no--that's not done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at the first attempt, anyhow, said he, after a little thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think, though, another time--but there's no use dreaming. Of course, it's not the treasure I'm thinking about. That was just a detail. It's the men. Good men!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're not dead, not all of them!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I wish I could believe you!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you _must_ believe me! Something tells me some of our good chaps are still alive. All of them perhaps."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Impossible! He shook his head."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Even if they escaped the explosion, the Jannati Shahr devils must have massacred them. He shuddered slightly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's the worst of it. Death is all right. But the crucifixion, and all--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cold reason paints a cruel picture, I admit, the woman answered, laying a hand on the man's."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you know--a woman's intuition. I don't believe as you do. And the major--and that rumor we got from old Nasr ed Din, the Hejaz rug-merchant down on Hester Street, how about that?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I know. But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How could a rumor like that come through, about a big, white-skinned, red-haired _Ajam_ slave held by that tribe near Jeddah? How could it, unless there were some truth back of it?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He wandered away into the desert, quite insane. It's not impossible he might have been captured. By Allah! And the man struck the table hard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I really believed Nasr ed Din--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd go again, if I died for it!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The pronoun's wrong. _We'd_ go!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, _we_! He took her hand."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We'd trail that rumor down and have Bohannan out of there, and the others too, if--but no, no, the thing's impossible!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing is impossible, I tell you, in the East. And haven't we had miracles enough? After we were judged pirates and condemned to die, by the International Aero Tribunal, wasn't it a miracle about that pardon? That immunity, for your vibratory secrets that have revolutionized the defensive tactics of the League's air-forces?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the impossible that happens, these days! The soul within me tells me some of our chaps are still alive, out there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Rrisa, said he."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "About the others, there's no sense of guilt. I feel, though, like a murderer about Rrisa."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Rrisa still lives!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The incense tells me. She insisted."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My heart tells me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Allah make it so! But even if he is dead, he died like the others--a man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In pursuit of an ideal. We all had that, a dream and an ideal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. It wasn't the treasure, of course, he mused."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It wasn't material things. It was adventure. Well--you and I have had that, at all events. And they had it too. They and we--all of us--we changed the course of history for more than two hundred million human beings. And as for you and me--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ruba el Khali"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's not the treacherous El Barr people I'm thinking of. If they perished, as they would to the last man defending their gold, all well and good. But in case any of our men are still alive there, _they'd_ be butchered. And then, the destruction of gold as a medium of exchange, by its gross plenty, would wreck the world with panics. And the greatest catastrophe of history would lie on our shoulders. That is why--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why the secret must remain here,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he exclaimed."
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This secret is ours, said he."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I have another, that even you don't know!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You have kept something from--_me_?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only until I have quite dared tell you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dared?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It isn't the mere, simple thing itself. It's the symbolism back of it. Maybe even now I'm premature in telling you. But, somehow--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Somehow, he added,"
}
]
|
12265 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Great Pearl Star, she cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Kaukab el Durri!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, the Great Pearl Star, itself!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, you never told me!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I had a reason."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And--through all that inferno, when every ounce had to be considered--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was keeping this for--you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For you, he repeated."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was mine, but it is mine no longer. This crown-jewel of Islam is yours, now--if you will have it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If I will have it! she whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's only one thing in this whole world I more dearly long for!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It came to me not sought after and welcomed, but storming over the ramparts of my soul. Yes, I fought love--and lost."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I understand that, too,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I put the Great Pearl Star in my breast, sacred to you. I said to myself: 'If we ever live through this, and I feel worthy to give this gem to her, I'll ask her to complete it.'"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To complete it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes. You see, one pearl was missing. The most wonderful of all. Now, as I clasp this necklace round your throat, the Great Pearl Star is completed."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I--don't understand--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah, but _I_ do! The missing pearl of great price-you are that pearl. In giving the Great Pearl Star to you, I make it whole."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And I give it back to you, completed!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Completion, he whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Peace, to the troubled heart. Peace, after the night that life has been to me. Peace, till the dawn!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "she said, in the line of the ancient Arabic poem."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "he breathed."
}
]
|
526368 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not this one!"
}
]
|
496035 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "O--a woman!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cradle Songs of All Nations,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The one who washes! _Per bacco_ [Great heavens]!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Such a voice in one so small! It is from the angels!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Take me, Filippo, Vittorio!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've staved at home long enough, she said to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They won't take me, but I'm going; I'm surely going."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pappina, _bambina_ [baby], what are you doing?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What wealth they must have! exclaimed Pappina to herself."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such queer words they speak, too! These must be the foreigners Vittorio tells about!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, the foreigners are not crazy; they are only kind,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where do all the _soldi_ come from?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What a quaint little beauty! one lady exclaimed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "See how she has decked herself out in all her finery! What cherubic eyes!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I must go home, she exclaimed;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must run home and tell them all about it. Oh, what a grand time I've had!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bravo! Bravo!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yours, all yours!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mora, the Italians' favorite game of chance. The boys--shouting, disputing, quarreling, eager to win--were all so intent on the game that not one of them noticed Pappina's approach. Slipping up behind her brother, she clasped one hand over his eyes, asking:"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you doing here?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I've been dancing. Come quickly, Filippo; I want a coral necklace; take me where I can buy one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sit down, you simpleton,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One, two, six, four,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let my money alone! You're a mean, horrid boy!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so hungry, Filippo, and I'm tired, too. Take me home. He made no move."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't you hear me? I want to go home at once, Filippo,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What business have you down here bothering me. I'd like to know! You'd better stay home after this."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Filippo, she cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't try to tell me. I tell you, 'tain't the Toledo."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then take me there, pleaded Pappina,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't go home till--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it, Filippo?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come along; it's only the Punchinellos."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Punchinellos? What's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Were you born yesterday? Live in Naples and don't know the Punchinellos?"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Filippo, I cannot see,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't give it to him! Don't, I say! He is bad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Shut up, you baby! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They're only puppets."
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stop him! Stop him!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let her alone!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hurrah! Hurrah!"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What! You give me no money? Sons of dogs, I play no more to you"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have brought home the little runaway She was--"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's the Punchinello man!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am Guiseppe Capasso, signor, said the dark-browed man, bowing and stepping inside the doorway,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, come, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pietro began, as he took one of Pappina's curls in his hand,"
}
]
|
45556 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will be good to her and educate her. Marta, my wife, and I will take her traveling over Italy like the daughter of a lord."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Such advantages--can you refuse them? And the money-- Guiseppe leaned toward Pietro, slyly watching him as he repeated slowly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think how much it will do to feed and clothe the others, Guiseppe urged."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I pay you money for the right to give your child splendid advantages. _Per bacco!_ What more do you ask?"
}
]
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