human
We didn't do so badly, at that, grinned Correy rather breathlessly, as we gained the welcome shelter of the _Ertak_.
gpt
There are a score and more of those potlids still standing open--which means that many spiders didn't go back to tell about what happened to them.
human
True--but had they waited until they could have surrounded us, the _Ertak_ would have been short-handed on the return trip. She would have been just two officers and six men short.
gpt
They're tough customers, he said.
human
I never did like spiders, and I like them less, now. Those things stood half again as high as a man on their long legs, and could jump half the length of the ship.
gpt
Hardly that, I said.
human
But I'll say this: if they're the gentry Inverness and the other two are investigating, they're welcome to their jobs!