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Alas! alas! all your enemies have not been so lucky." "How! is anybody wounded?" said Poinsinet. "My dearest friend, prepare yourself; that unhappy man who came to revenge his menaced honor that gallant officer that injured husband, Colonel Count de Cartentierce " "Well?"
"I arrest you, sir," said he, gravely, "with regret; you have slain, with seventeen wounds, in single combat, Colonel Count de Cartentierce, one of his Majesty's household; and, as his murderer, you fall under the immediate authority of the provost-marshal, and die without trial or benefit of clergy." You may fancy how the poor little man's appetite fell when he heard this speech.
I suppose you will say, next, that you were not for three minutes point to point with Cartentierce himself, the most dreadful swordsman of the army." "Why, you see," says Poinsinet, quite delighted, "it was so dark that I did not know with whom I was engaged; although, corbleu, I DID FOR one or two of the fellows."
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