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21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you send them all adrift in one of the boats?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Because we are not near enough to land, my son, replied Jarette;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I wish you would talk common-sense, Jarette, and not be so fond of chaffing me. You'll make me wish some day that I had not joined you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, my little brave, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, you don't, said Walters, sharply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure I've done everything I can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "My faith, yes; we will say it is so, said Jarette, with another sneering laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is wonderful how nervous men are who have their necks in the noose--boys too."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Phew! panted Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my lad, my lad, why didn't you whistle a jig out of the window?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why didn't I what?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Whistle a toon, my lad. That would ha' let 'em know you could hear 'em talking, and they'd ha' gone. Hold me tight, please, for I'm 'bout spent."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, Bob, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't say that. Rest for a few moments, and then climb back on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Rest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You couldn't haul me in?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I said despairingly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is impossible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Impossible it is, he groaned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I shall have to face it."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you mean, man?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What we've all got to face, doctor. I couldn't swarm up that rope again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dale, could we get the rope round his waist, and hold him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here! hist! quick!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence! cried Mr Frewen, sternly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do you say, Hampton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I says as if you takes the line from under my feet for half a moment down I goes, for all the feeling's gone out of my arms. I'm done."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no, I whispered in desperation."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hold on, Bob; we must--we will save you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, lad, he said dolefully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll hold on as long as I can; but if you two are going to save me, you'll have to be very smart about it, I'm afraid."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Frewen! Dale!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Silence, I say!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I won't be silent, cried Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, Dale, take this; I've pushed it through as far as I can reach. Give it him. Brandy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ah! ejaculated Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where is it?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Hampton, whispered Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's begun a'ready, doctor, was the answer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's put new life into me, sir, and I'm going to make a try for it directly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not for a minute, man, not for a minute."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In half a minute, sir, or it's of no good, for I'm a heavy man."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd say make fast the end o' the rope about me; but--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can you hold on the while?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Try, lad."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here goes!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Feel better, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better! I said wonderingly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm not ill."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, he said,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, I said sharply,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You fell, he said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he all right again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, coming round now,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, I remember now, I cried quickly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Bob Hampton, did he get up safely?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, quite safely."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, what's all this noise about?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was not aware, sir, that we were making any noise,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what's the matter, doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You can see, sir. The lad has been taken ill. No wonder, shut up in this stifling cabin."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph! My faith, yes. One is enough. Make him well, and he shall have another to himself to-morrow."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not if I know it,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He arn't ill. Wants a bucket of cold water drawn and soused over him. That'd put him right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You speak when you're spoken to, Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, skipper--cap'n, I mean; all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it's all right,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, said Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, you need not wait, said Mr Frewen, quietly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But you had better leave me a light."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What for? Set the ship on fire?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I wanted to set the ship on fire, I have plenty of matches,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And all that trouble, care, and suffering for nothing, Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "For nothing? I said, sitting up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you call it nothing to have found out that we have three strong men on the other side ready to fight for us? I don't."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had forgotten that for the moment, said my companion."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that is worth all our trouble; but I'm afraid poor Hampton will not venture to communicate with us again, so what do you say to beginning our sawing business once more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no: not to-night! I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Perhaps Bob Hampton will be able to propose a better way next time he comes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If he does come, my lad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you don't know him so well as I do, Mr Frewen. He is sure to come again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I hope he will, my lad."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, he will; and you see if he does not tell us to wait until he and Neb Dumlow are on guard. They'll get us out and then help us to open the cabins one by one."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing like being sanguine, my lad, he said;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Let down to the cabin-window,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I believe there are pistols inside, Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm sure of it, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open it quick. I'll stand on this side."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Loaded! whispered Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be careful with yours."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; one is for you, and I hope you will not have to use it; but these are stern times, Dale, and we must not be squeamish now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah! said my companion, smiling for the first time for days."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I begin to feel a little more hopeful now, Dale. You and I are going to take the ship yet. That was Hampton's work, of course?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sure to be,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to do it if I can, my lad, without shedding blood, unless one could not do that without risking life."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The scoundrel must be a good seaman, Mr Frewen said to me that night."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ship is well handled, you see, and it strikes me that we are going to have a rough night."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you thinking about?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was thinking about what Captain Berriman and Mr Brymer must feel,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "About the management of the ship? Yes, poor fellows, and both suffering too. You see that scoundrel has let the whole day pass by without letting me go and attend the captain. You are right, Dale, they must both be feeling horribly about the ship. Think you can sleep?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sleep? No; nor you. It is far too rough for that. Think this is a good seaworthy ship, Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think so. I hope so, he replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The owners stand high for their character. I wish the crew were as good as the ship. Dale, do you think we might break out to-night? We could do it without being heard; I am sure that I could saw round the lock of the door."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But Bob Hampton and the others would not be ready for us, and we should not have their help,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But this seems such a chance, my lad, with all that noise, and I want to be clear in case of accidents."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hist!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Something tapped at the cabin-window."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "See anything?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another pistol?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This will do for Mr Preddle,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who's there?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hist!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it's you, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I had just lain down, and the noise of the waves prevented my hearing you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I thought you were asleep,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Asleep? Well, perhaps I was nearly. You've come to tell me that all the water will be tossed out of those trays. Oh, my poor fish!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I hadn't, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Frewen wants to speak to you. He has a pistol for you ready for when we try to escape."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh dear! oh dear! he sighed."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We shall never try to escape. We're shut in here, and shall be drowned. Is the ship going down?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no; she'll ride it out."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But those men don't know how to manage her, do they?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think so, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't half understand big ships, but they seem to be doing what my father would do with a yacht."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let me come, Dale,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take it, and be careful. When it is light, you had better make sure that there is no moisture in the chambers."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But when are we going to try and do something? said Mr Preddle, in quite an ill-used tone."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought you were going to saw out one of these boards."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We are going to act as soon as the word comes from our friends outside. We can do nothing better than be ready."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Quick,--lie down!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is she going down?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You want me to come and see the captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't envy that madman his position, Dale, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "His mind must be in a pleasant state of anxiety, what with the management of the ship in a storm, his doubts about his prisoners, and the pleasant little fancies he must have about the laws of our country."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we're best off after all, aren't we? I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush!--he's back again. No--it's Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you people asleep?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hush! Go away,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, how I should like to give him a topper!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, if Mr Frewen liked, he could strike him down senseless, and then we should be masters of the ship, for the men would give in if they had no leader."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Avast! what are yer doing on, Mr Frewen?--you'll choke me."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You, Hampton?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, at present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I thought it was Jarette,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Wish it had been, my lad, said the sailor, in the same husky whisper."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My word, you have got a grip! But there, I must get back; on'y look here. There'll never be a better chance. Here's an old bosun's whistle; stuff it in yer pocket, and don't blow it till the right moment. When you do, blow hard, and me, Barney, and Neb Dumlow's with you."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Butter be hanged, doctor. You've got three pistols, and the door's open. You let out the mate, Mr Denning, and Mr Fishmonger; wait till you think the moment's right, and then down on old Frenchy; whistle hard, and then we'll all make a rush for the others, and drive 'em chock into the forksle, or overboard if they don't mind. Off!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "One moment, Hampton;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why don't you speak--why don't you speak?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Dale, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Charged?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, I heard him say,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then keep close to me, and come on."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Follow!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, who is it? Doctor?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, dress sharply. Trousers only."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am dressed. What's up? Striking?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "A blow for liberty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hah! A good time while they're fumbling with the old Castle. How many are you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Three, and three stout men on deck."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Who are they?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hampton, Blane, Dumlow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All traitors and scoundrels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All true men waiting for my signal."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Good. And the captain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too badly wounded to stir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Denning?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Too weak."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. Lead then; I'll do all you say."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Are you stronger?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Strong enough for that; but give me something to hit with. All right, I have my pocket-knife."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ready then? Come on, and let's see what had better be done."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Get Jarette down at any cost, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The rest will come easy."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He'll be up by the wheel, Mr Brymer whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We must tackle him there; and once get him down, we can beat back the others. I'll make sure for you."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! We've let our chance go,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Delivered into our hands,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Another opportunity gone, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We ought to have leaped upon him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Better luck next time, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He cannot stay forward long. He is seaman enough to know that his place is at the wheel."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then at all costs we must have him when he returns."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And what then? said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You do not mean to kill him, I suppose?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no; of course not."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I should place the door of one of the cabins wide open, and prop it. Then as soon as we have mastered and disarmed him, bundle him inside and keep him a prisoner."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; excellent, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll open mine at once."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I couldn't have done better myself there, but the men at the wheel are steering very wildly."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is he never coming again?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, he'll come, said Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They've got the grog forward there, and perhaps he has gone below."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then why not crawl forward and clap on the forecastle-hatch?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Because it will be far safer for us to secure their leader; and, besides, by closing up the forksle you might shut in our friends as well."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, quite right,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm certain that my poor fish will all be killed by the salt water, Dale,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say that was bad steering, and if I were in command, there would be a row."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must fetch him up if he is below,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look out! Here he comes!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "To the wheel, not here, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall we--"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Look here, said Mr Frewen then, in a hoarse voice;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Have you got his knife and pistol, Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes. All safe. Now then, forward silently till we are close upon them, and then give your signal--a whistle, isn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give it sharply; it will do for your friends as well as for us. Then fire if there is the least resistance, close with them, and let's get them under hatches. But I beg pardon, sir; you are in command."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense! You could not have given better advice."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But they will not show much fight. Without their leader they will be like sheep."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Now then, one more word, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It would have been better to divide, and part go to starboard, the rest to port, but we are so few."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, let's keep together, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, sir, I'm ready; but I'm afraid you must not expect much from me. I'll hit as hard as I can though."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That will do. Now, gentlemen, forward!"
}
]
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Heave them overboard if they don't give in!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open the hatch!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, quick, help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Where are you, boy?"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm all right!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Where's Mr Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, help!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here's another!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll pay for this night's work when the noo--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How many more?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's three on 'em forward, growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The look-out man and two more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Pistols! cried Mr Frewen, loudly, and then as there was a sharp clicking from mine as well as three others, he shouted--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, you men, surrender, or we fire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not us! came back hoarsely."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, lads, rush 'em; they've got no pistols!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, cried Mr Brymer,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But old Frenchy will fire up as soon as it's opened."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He will not fire at you."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But he may hit us, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Open that hatch, Mr Preddle,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right, sir; fire too, in case I miss."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But, cried the man, imploringly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't want you, dog!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Down with you!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Down with you!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, cried Bob Hampton, as we all stood there breathless with excitement, and quite forgetful of the storm raging round us,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yah! growled Dumlow,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Never mind, gents, we've done it, eh?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "God bless you both for true men!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we're forgetting the men at the wheel, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How many are there? Two?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, they're a couple o' soft Tommy sort of chaps, said Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can settle them two with one hand. That arn't the worst on it, sir; we've got to tackle Barney Blane. No, I won't do it for fear I should finish him, and you'd best steer out o' that job, Neb."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If I don't, I shall sarve him like a wornut, mate."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Dessay you would, my lad. We'll sponge over the two lads at the wheel while the gents does Barney. Hit him, gents, or shoot him somewhere low down, for he desarves it; all I wonder now is as he did not split all about it to old Frenchy."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We could all deal with him, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You two men come with us, and you, Dale, keep guard here with Mr Preddle. A shout will bring us back directly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Right, sir,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't be long, said Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I want to see to my fish."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On'y to think, gents, growled Bob Hampton, holding a lantern while Mr Brymer and the doctor thrust fresh cartridges into their pistols,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's one enemy the less to deal with, cried the mate, as we went aft, followed by the sailor."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Only a couple of them to tackle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I makes three of 'em, sir, said Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Our friend Barney is already accounted for, Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?--you have tackled him?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, that we have, Bob, I cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I scuses you all for laughing, gentlemen; though it did seem rather a rum thing to me for you to be a-busting out in a loud grin at a serus time like this. I see now. You met him then?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, we met him, replied Mr Frewen, leading the way up the ladder to the poop-deck,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shall I speak 'em first, gentlemen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, tell them to surrender, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We don't want any more fighting; and look here, Hampton, we want their help to navigate the ship."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Game's up, my lads! shouted Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Orficers has got the upper hand on us with loaded pistols, and you've got to knuckle down same as we have, and return to your dooty."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, messmate, said one of the men, shouting back so as to make his voice heard,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't mind; on'y what about Frenchy?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, what about Frenchy? cried the other."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We don't want him to come cussin' us and saying it's all t'other way on."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frenchy's down in the fork'sle, with the hatch over him, and two men with loaded pistols keeping guard, lads."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But s'pose he gets out again?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "They arn't going to let him, said Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, we don't want to fight, said the first speaker,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pretty pair o' sheep you was, too, my lads, to run through a gap that way. And now look here, you, jest recklect all this; you've both got your necks in nooses, and Mr Brymer here's got hold o' the other ends of the ropes, so as he can pull 'em any time he likes, and he will too if you don't stick pretty close to your dooty. That's right, arn't it, sir?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, that's right, Hampton, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You understand, then, if you do your duty now and help to navigate the ship into port, your conduct may--I say may, mind--be looked over."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, my mate and I'll stick to it, sir, said the spokesman of the two men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Frenchy was all talk about our being orficers and gentlemen if we rose again Captain Berriman, but as soon as we did rose he pumps hisself up, and it's all Captain Jarette, and every one else is nobody at all 'cept for him to cuss at."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the other sailor;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "said Bob Hampton, with a chuckle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was all a paddy till we could get the genle-men out to make a fight on it. That's so, arn't it, gents?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, my lads, Hampton, Dumlow, and Blane have been fighting for us all through."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, that's it, is it? said the man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Very well. Anything for a quiet life, I says; on'y how much longer are we to be at the wheel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'll have you relieved soon, my men, so do your best, and keep easing her off another point or two now and then."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay; don't keep running her nose into all the big waves, mateys, cried Hampton; and then to Mr Frewen--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You won't have to shoot 'em this time, sir. They arn't a bad sort. It was all that Frenchy."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Come to the saloon now,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'd be a bit on my guard, gentlemen, for Barney 'll be a bit nasty at all this here, and p'r'aps show fight, and when he do he hits hard. Did you tie him werry fast?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As fast as we could,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Below there, matey! cried Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "How are you?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Easy, my lad, and I'll cast you off. Wait till I get hold of the knots. Frenchy's under hatches, and things is all right again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Goroo, goroo!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah! he roared out, after taking a long free breath."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That was your game, Bob, but on'y just wait till I gets my lists."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, my lad, cried Mr Brymer;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, you didn't, cried Barney, fiercely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't be a fool, messmate! growled Bob Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, but it was a lark, and you sent me here to be ketched."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, hark at him, gents; did you ever hear such a wooden image of a man as that? Why, it were Frenchy sent you to bully the lads at the wheel, warn't it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, I won't tell a lie, panted the man,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It was all a mistake, my lad, said Mr Frewen;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, sir, cried Barney;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, messmate, it is disappynting, I'll allow, growled Bob Hampton;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, that's right enough, matey, growled Blane;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, matey, it arn't. But lookye here. He's forrard and down in the forksle, and as soon as you get the feeling back in your legs--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, you may say that, mate. They're like a mask o' cold lead."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then I'll rub them for you, and then you can go and strike him back."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What! now he's down. Nice sort of cold meat work that'd be; I wanted to go at him when he was up."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There, Blane, said Mr Frewen,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, if you put it that way, sir, I'm ready, growled the man;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, they are off your arms, man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When what's gone o' my arms? Have they been took off?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nay, they're all right."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, my legs arn't. Nice way to sarve a fellow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Shake hands, Barney, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so sorry."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't, sir. You must do it yourself. I don't b'lieve yet as I've got no hands, no arms, nor anything else, but a head."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There you are, matey, cried Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Did you tie them ropes, Mr Brymer, sir? They was tight 'uns."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; it was Mr Dale here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, him! growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, they was done in a second-hand sort o' way."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, they were fastened the way you taught me, Bob!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, sir, that's my modesty, said Bob, with a chuckle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I can't say they were done now. Now, matey, stand up, we've got lots to do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Can't,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then lie down till we've got a lantern, and seen to the captain and Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, get a lantern, said Mr Brymer;"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Circ'lation's a-coming back, youngster, he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I say, did you kill that young Walters?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Walters! I cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'd forgotten all about him. I didn't see or hear anything of him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Dessay not, sir. He'd get out of the way while the row was on. Maybe he'd got into a bunk to have a snooze and didn't hear it. But, I say, what a game!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What, our re-taking the ship, Barney?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; you thinking I was Frenchy. Well, it's lucky you didn't heave me overboard."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Coming round, mate?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, my lad, I've got one arm and a bit o' one leg back, and toothers is coming back slowly like, but it's rum work feeling nothing but head and body, and your arms and legs all gone dead at first, and then you begins to know as they arn't been cut off and chucked away, and they're still there. They was just like sleeves and stockings stuffed with sorduss, and people making cushions of 'em and sticking the pins in as hard as ever they can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm so sorry, Barney,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, lad, I s'pose you are, and seeing as you thinked it was old Frenchy, I don't wonder as you tied them there knots as hard as ever you could. But what I do wonder at is, that the line didn't cut my legs right off. Shows as my muscles must be made of real good stuff, and when I've done rubbing 'em back into shape, I s'pose they'll come all right once more; but I should have liked to be in the fun."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Get your pincushions all right, messmate, said Bob Hampton, slapping Barney on the back,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Think there'll be any more fighting, matey?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Think there'll be any more fighting? Just hark at him, gentlemen. Why, you grumbling old swab, do you think as, once having hold of the Burgh Castle and calling hisself skipper, old Frenchy's the sort o' man to let a few planks and a hatchway keep him from making another try? You wait a bit, old man, if you're so precious anxious to get yourself made sore. Frenchy won't forget us for gammoning him, and pretending to be on his side."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I ain't hankshus to be made sore, Bob, old matey, growled Barney;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right then, Mr Brymer 'll see as you has one, I dessay."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "How are you? he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I could not come to you before."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Tell me, cried Captain Berriman excitedly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nothing much,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I heard firing and a struggle in the saloon,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, yes, we have been re-taking the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Humph! Poor fellow, he could not bear it,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Too good--to be true, he muttered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thank God--thank God!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't see Brymer; is he hurt?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; quite safe."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Preddle?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "We are all pretty sound, and the mutineers are shut down in the forecastle, sir."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, if I only had strength! said the captain."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Doctor, you have half cured me with this news; can't you give anything to set me up for an hour or two?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing, said Mr Frewen, sadly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I can only tell you that you must be patient. You must lie here and give your orders. We will execute them as far as we can."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "And we are in a bad storm. There must be danger on that side too, but I can do nothing."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr Brymer will do his best, and there are three of the best seamen to help."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Hampton, and two more?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, no, traitors, don't trust them--the scoundrels."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, we arn't, cap'n, growled Bob Hampton."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We was obliged to sham Abram a bit. Now I do call that 'ere hard, arter me and Dumlow and Barney helped get the ship back again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You did?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Course we did."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, they have been true as steel, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You need not fear these men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And that boy, Walters?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, him, sir! He's down below somewheres, and he'd better stay too, growled Bob Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But have you got the men prisoners?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, quite safe."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then the ship must be seen to. She's labouring heavily. Tell Brymer--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall tell Mr Brymer nothing, said Mr Frewen firmly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You shall give him your orders instead. You can be at peace now, sir, so lie still patiently, and believe that everything possible will be done to preserve order and save the ship."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; thank you, said the captain, whose lip was quivering."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I know I must be patient. There, I'll try and do what I have not done these many hours,--go to sleep. But bring me some news sometimes, Dale, my lad, I shall be so anxious to know."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Unfasten it, and go in and tell them that all is safe once more."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Won't you go?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, he replied, after making an effort to master his anxiety to take the lead."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You and Mr Denning were on friendly terms. He would rather receive the good news from you. In with you quick, and tell him that if he feels strong enough, I--that is, Mr Brymer would be glad if he would come and help to keep watch over the prisoners."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "With a rewolver,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, say with a pistol, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He would be as effective there as a strong man."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Better, growled Bob,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Keep back, scoundrel, or I'll fire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no! Mr Denning, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah!"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Quick, a light, Bob!--matches!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Right you are, sir,"
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yah! everything's so plaguy wet,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here, let me come, matey, I heard Dumlow say."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mine's brass box."
}
]
|
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{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, Mr Denning, he said quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think there is no more cause for anxiety now, except from the storm. Will you see to your sister, and bathe her face? It is only a fainting fit from the sudden shock."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, thank you, said Mr Denning, coldly and ungraciously, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Be good enough to take away your men."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course. Come, my lads,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's all right, Mr Denning, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nothing to mind now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank God!--thank God! he said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, Dale, if you only knew what we have suffered, my poor sister and I!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, yes, it has been horrible, I said, trying to comfort him, for his illness had made him weak as a girl;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; and--and I'm afraid I spoke very sharply to him, but I could not help it, Dale."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, you weren't very warm to him, I said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, yes, he cried hastily;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, and I mustn't stay,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can't you stop--a few minutes?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I must go on deck. There's everything to do, and we're short-handed. I'll leave you the light."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tell Miss Denning I'm so glad,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, Alison Dale, she cried warmly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He has--he has,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, Dale, he cried,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm glad you've come. I want you to stay on guard with Mr Preddle. You have a pistol?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's right. I want to go to the wheel. Hampton is there now. I should like to do more, but it is terrible work now, short-handed as we are; and we must run on in this blind fashion, for I have no idea where we are."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is that dangerous?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; a blessing, my lad. It will save her. I only want steering power. Look here, don't fire unless you are obliged. If you do, mind, I take it as a signal that you want help, both of you; and then of course we shall come to your help. But what about Mr Denning?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Glad to see you, Mr Denning. Ah, that's right. Rather a small pistol, but I dare say it can do its duty. You will help them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "As far as my strength will let me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That's right. Now, Mr Preddle, I must go. Sorry about your fish, but we can do nothing till the weather mends."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I'm afraid not,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't hear that crying out now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No; I haven't heard it since Mr Dale came,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That must wait too. The safety of the ship is all we can look to now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You ought to have brought a waterproof, Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who could think of waterproofs at a time like this? he said, with his lips to my ear. Then with a start, as he turned his head and looked forward--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it must be some one wounded crying for help."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is what Mr Brymer and I heard several times before, said Mr Preddle excitedly."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He thought it must be one of the mutineers who had escaped aloft at first, afraid to stir to come down."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't think it could be that, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It didn't sound like being up aloft."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "So he said. Then he thought--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There it is again,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, it's forward somewhere,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that's what Mr Brymer said; but he went and searched all about forward."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then it must be one of the men below--one who is wounded, I said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do you think we could send Mr Frewen down to his help?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not without letting your prisoners loose, said Mr Denning, decisively."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm sorry for the man, but he must suffer for the present."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very horrible, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Denning coldly;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There it is again, said Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "When the mate was here, he felt sure that some one had crept overboard, and down to what he called the stays under the bowsprit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "When the attack was made? I cried."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, that must be it. There it goes again. That was certainly `Help!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He must be afraid of falling. Why, the vessel keeps on driving into these great waves, and at every dip down he must be nearly drowned."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What are you going to do, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Find out where he is, and then lower a rope to him; and when he has fastened it round him, we must haul him on board, even if he is another enemy. There'll be no need to be afraid of him."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Give me room then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "They've got a chopper, and are going to cut their way out!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What are you going to do?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Those were my orders; I was obliged."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't like having to fire like that, said Mr Preddle just then;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he cried,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've just shot one of the men."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "On their own heads be it. This may act as a warning to them. But there must be no hesitation; our lives and that of Miss Denning depend upon swift action. At the first stroke of an axe, fire again."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I will,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ought we to send down Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Don't ask absurd questions, sir, replied Mr Brymer angrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come, Frewen. Now, my lad."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Disappynted again, sir. I did think I was to have a go at Frenchy now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is some one forward there by the bowsprit!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nobody could possibly be hanging on there,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There can't be any one there, I said."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's impossible."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "So Mr Brymer thought, said Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He said he would be either washed off or drowned, and that it must be one of the men below."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There it is again, said Mr Denning;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes; there!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The wretches!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The wretch! said Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was Jarette's voice, I'm sure; and he must have fired."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "At some prisoner they have there below,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Or at the wounded man,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It must be another wounded man then, for you heard the sound before you fired that shot."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes; and it makes me feel better satisfied, for the mutineers are such brutes--such savage brutes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There! I cried;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If it hadn't been for what we heard just now, said Mr Preddle just then,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I should have been ready to think it was something uncanny-- something ghostly; but, he added hastily, as Mr Denning turned a mocking face to him,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't think so now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's very horrid, I said;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, it is horrible, said Mr Denning;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Why, I cried, as a flash of mental light just then illumined my thick brain,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I know!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What is it? What have you found out?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It's some one in the cable-tier,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cable-tier? Where's that?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Just forward. Front of the forksle, I shouted."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We must get the hatch off."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, no; not till Mr Brymer comes,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Am I mistaken after all?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Below there!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Help! pray help!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "All right, I cried;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll see."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all right, I said;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ahoy! he growled."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mate says, is all right?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I said eagerly, for boy as I was, I seemed to be the captain of that watch, the two gentlemen giving place to me, even if they did oppose some of my ideas."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Go and tell Mr Brymer to come here."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, ay!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Of course! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I might have known. Why, it must be one of our lads, and a friend. Quick, Dumlow, and have off that hatch."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say, what cheer you, my lad?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Walters! Why, my lad, what are you doing there?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help! groaned my old messmate with a piteous look up at us;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, mutineer or middy, said Mr Brymer,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, I said roughly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'm--I'm--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, where?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not--not wounded,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then what's the matter with you? I cried contemptuously;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No--no, that--that wretch, Jarette."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What? cried Mr Brymer, with a mocking laugh."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? `Wretch Jarette!' Do you mean your captain, my worthy young lieutenant?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here, get up, cur! You're our prisoner now. What do you say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Says as you're to stow him in prison, sir, and not let the skipper see him."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Bah! Has it come to this? Speak to him, Dale. What does he say now?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Water; he is asking for water,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suffering from exhaustion and want of air."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he must have a rest, cried Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, sir, can you get up and walk?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lift him up, Dumlow, said Mr Brymer,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is there any hope for us, Dale?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I replied."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't know, I'm not a sailor, but I should not have thought the ship could have kept on long like this without sinking."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, she's a splendid boat, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You're talking like this to comfort me,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; I'm telling you the truth as far as I understand it. Of course I've never been out in a storm on the ocean before, but I've been in some big ones off the coast round Ireland, where we were always in danger of going on the rocks, which are awful there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But the sea comes thundering down on the ship so."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What of that? I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The ship's hollow, and it sounds all the more, but the water is soft, and we go through it or ride over it somehow."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ah, you're too young to know what fear is,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh no, I'm not, I cried, laughing."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I've been awfully frightened several times to-night, but I'm more afraid of Jarette and his gang than I am of the sea."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have no sister on board, he said."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No bitter regrets for letting her come into such danger."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, I said, rather chokingly;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Let's go on,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Make the best of things to her."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, John, she cried piteously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Nonsense! he cried;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Suffering terribly, John dear. You must stay with me now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tied to your apron, you foolish girl, he said merrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Nonsense! I'm wanted to help. There, I bring you good news. We've got all the pirates safely in prison, and as soon as the storm's over all will be right again."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, that's quite right, Miss Denning,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But this terrible storm; shall we be wrecked?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ships don't get wrecked out in the open sea, I replied coolly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then you think we are safe?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh yes, I hope so,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Safe? Of course, darling little cowardly sis,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now then, Mr Dale and I have to go back on duty to shoot mutineers and pirates, and you are to lie down and trust in our all taking care of you. Try and sleep for a few hours."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sleep! she said reproachfully,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes! Why not? To grow strong, and ready to help me if I want it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But, must you go, John?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, dear, he said gravely,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I must; but, please God, the worst danger is over, and you will not hinder me from doing my duty like a man, even if I am a weak one."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Come back in about an hour, she said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That we will, cried Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Make plenty, Lena, Mr Brymer and-- and the sailors will be glad of some."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not much need for it, he said to us quietly,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he continued."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How do we know that you have not been contaminated, and are going to rise against us?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There's no fear till the storm's over, Mr Frewen,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Once more, stop that or I fire!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I warn you again! roared Mr Brymer."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I fired before without trying to hit you, now I shall aim straight. Stop that this moment!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fire away! Ready below, lads, I'll have it off--"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I was obliged to fire, Mr Frewen, said the mate, sharply,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It is a bitter necessity, he said;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It is impossible, Mr Frewen. If I give orders for that hatch to be opened, there will be a rush, and even if we remain masters and beat them down, it can only be at the cost of wounding more, perhaps causing death."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not make a truce with them?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "With the men it would be easy enough, but not with their leader, a scoundrel who feels that he is fighting with penal servitude before him, perhaps the halter! But, Mr Frewen, these are no times for being humane. No; that hatch shall not be opened."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I will stand ready, after telling the men what I am going to do, and if they will keep away while the hatch is open there can be no rush."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I think differently, sir,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I agree with Mr Brymer, sir, said Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But you agree with me, Mr Preddle?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, I don't, Mr Frewen, came in Mr Preddle's high-pitched voice."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I don't like men to suffer, but I won't give my vote for you to go down into that wild beasts' cage."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What do you say, fellow-prisoner?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall vote against Mr Frewen being allowed to go down, I said sturdily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We want your help more than they do."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bravo! my lad,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, yes; bravo! then, said the doctor, sadly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am beaten; I give in."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Thank you, Frewen, cried Mr Brymer, holding out his hand, which the doctor took frankly."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am sorry to go against you, but you are too valuable to us here. I am sure that if I let you go down, they would not let you come up gain. Jarette is fox enough to know how your absence would weaken us, and then there is the captain; I place his life as of more value than that of a mutinous crew."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I'm convinced, said Mr Frewen."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "My desire was to stay, but as a surgeon I couldn't stand still, knowing that my help was wanted down there."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You doctors are so greedy, cried Mr Preddle."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You have two patients as it is, and if we're going, on like this I'm afraid you'll soon have some more."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said the doctor, turning to Mr Denning,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall have another one. Forgive me for speaking, Mr Denning, but I think you ought to go back to your cabin now and remove your wet things."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You mean well, sir, said Mr Denning, courteously,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not now, sir, said the mate."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think we can manage, and if you would hold yourself in readiness to turn out if we raise an alarm that would be enough."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I am here, and I have faced so much of the storm and trouble that I will see it through now."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That sounds bad. They're hatching a new plot against us. It is like having your ship on fire somewhere amongst the cargo in a place where you cannot reach. It goes on smouldering day after day, and you are in the full expectation of its breaking out. You don't know when, but you are sure that it must come before long."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I was thinking something of the kind,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I were to come and say as the lady's got jorums o' hot coffee ready, sir, in the captain's cabin. Mr Denning and Mr Dale's to go first, and I'm to take the watch till they comes back."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I could not tell any difference,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Is the storm still so bad, Mr Brymer?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "No, he said emphatically."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's one of those gales which blow in a circle, and we're passing through it. The glass is rising, and in less than an hour I think it will begin to lull."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You'll stay now, John,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Don't tempt me, Lena! he cried."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I want to stay, but I want also to-- there, I will act like a man."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Help me quickly! he whispered."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take me back before my weakness masters me, and I break down."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But if you are so weak? I said anxiously."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Take me forward! he whispered angrily."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You cannot understand."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I think I've conquered, Dale."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Conquered? It's wonderful how brave you have been."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why, it's getting light!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr Frewen, Mr Preddle, my sister has hot coffee ready, and will be glad if you can go at once."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your turn must be when they come back,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh, all right, sir, I can wait,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "It's all over!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What's all over?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The hurry-cane, sir. We're most through it, and the wind's beginning to drop."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But it's blowing terribly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ay, sir, it is; but 'nour ago it was blowing ten times as terrible. Why, there was a time when it most shaved my head, and another time when I put my hands up to feel if my ears was cut off. Strikes me as they would ha' gone if they hadn't been tied down with the flaps of this here sou'-wester."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Yes, it's getting lighter fast, cried Mr Denning."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But how rough the sea is!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Ay, sir, she be a bit tossy like, said Bob;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But we've had an awful night, Bob."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Tidy, sir, tidy. Not so bad as it might ha' been."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh, it couldn't have been worse!"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What? Not been worse, sir? Why, where's your mainmas' gone by the board, and your fore-mast cut off at the top-mast-head, and your mizzen splintered into matchwood? Why, my lad, this arn't been nothing. And look yonder, there's the sun a-coming out, leastwise it's making the clouds look red-like. We're coming out of it well. Why, you ought to be proud, Mr Dale, o' belonging to such a ship as the Burgh Castle. She's a clipper, if ever there was one built."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am proud of her, Bob, I said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Well, no, sir, said Bob, rubbing his red nose, which looked wet and shiny now;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That Jarette is the drop of oil?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "That's it, sir, and a werry, werry rancid drop he be."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "went Bob Hampton's lips in a loud smack."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Glad when they gents come back, for I want some o' your young lady's hot coffee, bless her! to take the taste o' the hyle out o' my mouth."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You shall have it soon, Hampton, my good brave fellow, cried Mr Denning, and I saw the weak tears in his eyes,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thankye, sir, thankye, that's very good of you. Why, Mr Dale, sir, you talk of our having a bad night. Tchah!--nothing, lad, nothing. How could it be a werry bad 'un when you have the luck to be shipped aboard a craft with a angel aboard? A angel, that's what I says, and Neb Dumlow and Barney says the same. We all said it arter the mutiny had begun, and that if we didn't get the best of old Frenchy somehow we'd eat our heads.--Lie down, will yer?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "That was French Jarette a-listening, sir, for a penny-piece, whispered Bob, for it was growing possible to whisper now."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Strikes me we arn't done with him yet, and if I might adwise, I should say as Mr Frewen ought to be sent down below with some of his doctor's stuff to pyson that chap like you would a rat, for there'll never be no peace while he's aboard. Hah! he continued, smacking his lips."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There's your sort; here's Mr Preddle coming back with his face shining and smelling o' hot coffee like a flower-garding."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Looks like my turn now."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Miss Denning is waiting to give you some coffee, Mr Hampton,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Thankye for the mister, sir, and thank her for the coffee,"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "We shall almost have a calm in an hour, gentlemen, he said,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not yet,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, not yet, doctor; but we've only one enemy to deal with now, and can devote all our attention to him. I think I can relieve two of you gentlemen now. Mr Frewen, will you fight out another hour or two, while these gentlemen go and change, and have an hour or two's sleep?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll go and change, said Mr Denning;"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Please yourselves, gentlemen; but you must have rest, and be in readiness for a call. Hah! that's grand; what should we do without the sun?"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Put out your tongue,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, open your eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Surely that does not hurt you, my lad. I want to do you good if I can."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Are you in pain?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Does that hurt you?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Can you feel it if I press your chest?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Stand a little on one side, Dale; I want to look at his eyes."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oh!"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He went against us and played the blackguard, I thought to myself;"
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, he's very bad, said Mr Frewen at last,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I shall have to get ready a mixture for him--something pretty strong too."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, said Mr Frewen to me, but watching his patient the while;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Do you think he is very bad, Mr Frewen?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes--very, was the reply."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Not dangerous!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yes, decidedly dangerous,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then he ought not to be left?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oh yes, better left. He'll come round. There, I'm going to see how the other prisoners are getting on. I'm afraid that I am badly wanted there."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Oughtn't I to stop and nurse him?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No; certainly not. He is better alone. This kind of case does not require attention--only time. Come along,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "All right, Mr Frewen; I'll come directly,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "But I want to fasten the door,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I'll fasten it when I come out."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "No, that will not do; Mr Brymer said that the door was to be kept fast, and I can't go away and leave it."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "But I want to talk to him, I whispered."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Lock me in for a bit."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And suppose he turns savage with you, and tries to get your weapons?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shan't let him have them, I replied."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Besides, he's weak and ill."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Humph!--not so very, my lad. There, I'll lock you in, and come and let you out in a quarter of an hour."
}
]
|
21366 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I don't believe he wants medicine, I thought."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "He must be suffering from some internal injury."
}
]
|
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