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Kingley is a better player, though not so lucky," Immelan acknowledged, with a little bow. "Never believe it, with all due respect to our young friend here," Sir Daniel replied, as he cut a card. "Kingley plays like a man with brain but without subtlety. In a duel between you two, I would back Immelan every time." Kingley took his place at the table with a little gesture of resignation.
He often pretended to be ignorant of duels; but when he had to admit his knowledge of one, loudly expressed his dissatisfaction. I recall in this connection two or three circumstances which I shall attempt to relate. A short time after the foundation of the Empire, a duel occurred, which created much stir in Paris, on account of the rank of the two adversaries.
All Nice was in a perfect roar over it. And they had a duel afterwards, and Mr. Livingstone he is a wonderful shot instead of hurting the little prince, just shot away the tip of his left ear as nicely as possible. Oh, he is a delightful man and here he comes." And Dorothy, half rising from her chair, and paying no more attention to Mr.
In less than half a century the husbands of its two co-heiresses, James, Duke of Hamilton, and Charles, Lord Mohun, were slain by each other's hands in a murderous duel arising out of a dispute relative to the partition of the Fitton estates, and Gawsworth itself passed to an unlineal hand, by a series of alienations complicated beyond example in the annals of this country."
My second day's journey for the Irish roads were rough in those days, and the progress of a gentleman's chariot terribly slow brought me to Carlow, where I put up at the very inn which I had used eleven years back, when flying from home after the supposed murder of Quin in the duel. How well I remember every moment of the scene!
This affair will end in a duel. If I had not to liquidate that folly," and he pointed out with the end of his cane a placard relative to the sale of his own palace, "I would amuse myself by taking Caterina from both of them. But those little amusements must wait until after my marriage." As we have seen, the cunning Prince had not been mistaken as to the course taken by the cab Gorka had hailed.
"If I'm attacked," said I, "I shall defend myself; but I'm not going to fight a duel here, without witnesses, at the dead of night, in your house." "Call it what you like then," said he; and he snatched up a pistol from the table. He was beyond remonstrance, influence, or control.
But as it was found that in a duel, he who was in the right had not a better chance than he who was in the wrong, therefore society instituted the present mode of trial, and gave the advantage to him who is in the right. We sat till near two in the morning, having chatted a good while after my wife left us.
M. de Villars was gentleman usher; he was grandson of a recorder of Coindrieu, and one of the best made men in France. There was a great deal of fighting in his young days, and he had acquired a reputation for courage and skill. To these qualities he owed his fortune. M. de Nemours was his first patron, and, in a duel which he had with M. de Beaufort, took Villars for second.
He bubbled over with conversation and enthusiasm, and seemed to have taken a great fancy to the lawyer. The theme of his glancing talk was the duel, over which he was immensely amused; but from it he diverged on the slightest occasion to comment on whatever for the moment struck his notice.
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