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The door was opened, the general gave me his place, and I ordered my servants not to follow me but to await my orders at the house. "You might want them," said Branicki; "they had better come along." "If I had as many as you, I would certainly agree to your proposition; but as it is I shall do still better without any at all.
"Excuse me, madam, but I thought it better to put my body behind my hand." This sally made Branicki laugh, but his sister said to me, "You wanted to kill my brother, for you aimed at his head." "God forbid, madam! my interest lay in keeping him alive to defend me from his friends." "But you said you were going to fire at his head."
"What has happened?" became at once the general question. I held my tongue, and when they asked Lubomirski he replied that as I kept silence it was his duty to do the same. Thereupon the palatin, speaking in his friendliest manner, said to me, "What has taken place between you and Branicki?" "I will tell you the whole story, my lord, in private after supper."
"Lay the whole matter before the king, and you shall have my voice in your favour." "I am quite willing to do so, general, if his excellency will say that he regrets what passed between us last night." Branicki looked fiercely at me, and said wrathfully that he had come to fight and not to parley. "General," said I, "you can bear witness that I have done all in my power to avoid this duel."
My surgeons are doing all they can for him, but I have not forgotten Casanova. You may assure him that he is pardoned, even if Branicki should die." I kissed the letter gratefully, and shewed it to my visitors, who lauded this generous man truly worthy of being a king. After this pleasant news I felt in need of rest, and my lords left me.
The only consolation he had was that his great friends were kinder to him than ever, and the king himself honoured him with peculiar attention. Madame Binetti was triumphant. When I saw her she condoled with me ironically on the mishap that had befallen my friend. She wearied me; but I could not guess that Branicki had only acted at her instigation, and still less that she had a grudge against me.
I made up my mind that Madame Binetti had excited Branicki to follow me, and possibly to treat me as he had treated Tomatis. I had not received a blow certainly, but I had been called a coward. I had no choice but to demand satisfaction, but I also determined to be studiously moderate throughout.
"Yes, my lord, I was afraid I might never have another chance of dining again." "If I had dined, your ball would have pierced my intestines; but being empty it yielded to the bullet, and let it pass by harmlessly." I heard afterwards that on the day of the duel Branicki had gone to confession and mass, and had communicated.
Moszczinski is in the doctor's hands, and will be laid up for some time. "As soon as it was reported that Branicki was killed, his Uhlans began to ride about the town swearing to avenge their colonel, and to slaughter you. It is very fortunate that you took refuge here.
I replied that I had business all the day, and that as I had made up my mind not to call upon him, except for the purpose of fighting, I begged him not to be offended if I took the liberty of sending back his carriage. An hour later Branicki called in person, leaving his suite at the door.
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