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I have a wife and family, which are powerful checks upon a man's duelling impulses!" "Silence! You are no cousin of mine no drop of your sluggish blood stagnates in my veins no spark of the liquid fire of my life's current burns in your torpid arteries, else at this insult would it set you in a flame! Never dare to call me cousin again."
Therefore, the following afternoon a small flotilla set sail for the Contra Costa shore, and a crowd of several hundred spectators disembarked at the chosen duelling ground. Nan knew nothing of all this. Keith was now in such depths of low spirits that his wearied soul did not much care what became of him.
We left the garden, followed by all the assistants, and found ourselves by the edge of the sea, on fine solid sand, ready for battle. Pertelay knew that I was quite a good swordsman; however he gave me some words of advice on how I should attack my adversary, and fastened the hilt of my sabre to my hand with a large handkerchief, which he rolled round my arm. My father hated duelling.
They defied the king's edict against duelling: the Count of Bouteville, the most notorious duellist of his time, and the Count of Les Chapelles were sent to the scaffold for having defiantly fought duels in the Place Royale in open noonday, at which the Marquis of Buffy was killed.
In fact, he might be called a fighting-man, although he disapproved of duelling; and this served to keep him at a distance from Garrison, of whom he wisely remarked that "the nearer public opinion approached to him the further he retreated into the isolation of his own private opinions."
"But I did not say there was any truth in it, either," answered his Excellency with a reassuring smile. "What made you think of duelling?" he asked, turning to Astrardente. "Spicca," said the latter. "Wherever Spicca is concerned there is a duel. He is a terrible fellow, with his death's-head and dangling bones one of those extraordinary phenomena bah! it makes one shiver to think of him!"
But as the only conceivable advantage of the Hamilton duel lay in its arousing the public mind to the barbarity of duelling, the only gain from the Decatur duel was that it confirmed this conviction. In both instances there was an unspeakable shock to the country and infinite domestic anguish. Nothing else was achieved.
Really, one might just as well permit duelling." Manicamp started, and moved as if he were about to withdraw. "Is your majesty satisfied?" "Delighted; but do not withdraw yet, Monsieur de Manicamp," said Louis, "I have something to say to you."
The Emperor did not like duelling. 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.
"Rather!" returned Davison; "he has become so much of a Frenchman he has been so contaminated, if I may put it that way that I believe quite recently he was either principal or second in a duel. By the way, which was it, Harmon?" "Merely a second," answered the other. "I don't believe in duelling myself," continued Davison: "it seems to me an idiotic custom, and so futile."
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