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Scarcely had the two rapiers sounded on meeting, when a company of the cardinal's guards appeared on the scene. At that time there was not only a standing feud between the king's musketeers and the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, there was also a prohibition against duelling. "The cardinal's guards! The cardinal's guards!" cried Aramis and Porthos at the same time. "Sheathe swords, gentlemen!
There is not a point in the affairs of this nation more important than this very practice of duelling, considered as a point of honor in one part of the Union, and a point of infamy in another, with its consequences. I say there is no more important subject that can go forth, North and South, East and West; and I therefore take my issue upon it.
Her Majesty sent at once for the Duke, expressed her abhorrence of the custom of duelling, and required his word of honour that he would proceed no further. The Duke pledged his word accordingly, and the affair terminated. The lamentable duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun took place in November 1712, and sprang from the following circumstances.
Unpursued, but without finding rest or satisfaction, he went to Parma, Bologna, Pisa, Florence. Grimani's death burdened his conscience but lightly. Duelling was a battle in miniature, to kill one's foe no crime, but a victory. Far different anxieties tortured him.
That Mr. Lincoln was upon principle opposed to duelling would be readily inferred from his characteristic kindness. That "we are time's subjects," however, and that the public opinion of sixty-odd years ago is not that of to-day will readily appear from the published statement of his friend Dr. Merryman: "I told Mr. Lincoln what was brewing, and asked him what course he proposed to himself.
But, if you can fancy it true, would you put yourself upon an equal footing with him?" "I would," said Robert. "Then you accept his code of morals." "That's too shrewd for me: but men who preach against duelling, or any kind of man-to-man in hot earnest, always fence in that way." "I detest duelling," Major Waring remarked.
We fear other nations, we fear other people, we fear public opinion to an extent incredible, and tremble before the opinion of our servants and tradespeople; we fear our own manners and therefore are obliged to preserve the idiotic practice of duelling, in which as often as not the man whose honour is being satisfied is the one who is killed; we fear all those above us, of whom there are invariably a great many; we fear all officials, and our country drips with officials.
"Harriot Freke shouted in a stentorian voice, which actually made your pig-driver start: she explained to him in French our distress, and the cause of it, Clarence was, as I suppose you have discovered long ago, 'that cleverest young man in England who had written on the propriety and necessity of female duelling. He answered Harriot in French 'To attempt your rescue by force would be vain; but I will do better, I will make a diversion in your favour. Immediately our hero, addressing himself to the sturdy fellow who held me in custody, exclaimed, 'Huzza, my boys!
How am I to face Europe if my soldiers turn their points upon each other? Another word of your duelling, and I break you between these fingers. I saw his plump white hands flash before my eyes as he spoke, and his voice had turned to the most discordant hissing and growling.
But I wish to say, in the beginning, that duelling and other vicious practices charged upon the University of Heidelberg are confined to about one fifth of the whole number of students. They are not all duellists, nor all inordinate beer-drinkers. Probably they are no worse than the residents at other universities, though the duels are certainly exceptional.
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