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"Fernando," said Terrence, grasping his arm firmly, as if to instill into him some of his own hope and confidence, "Fernando, although you're only a boy, I've no fear of your courage; but this Lieutenant Matson is a famous duelist, and he will try to shake your nerve.
She has collected all her proofs, and has come hither with them voluntarily has perhaps already arrived. Brussels, where two of her marmots rest, is one of her most frequent stations. That censorious Madame Kranich made a scene, but she had to yield to conviction." "A censorious Madame Kranich! Is the young duelist married?" "What? No, no! It is Francine's guardian I speak of.
Lafayette was at The Hermitage in 1825, and his noble nature was drawn to Jackson in a way quite impossible to understand if he was nothing more than the vindictive duelist, the headstrong brawler, the crusher out of Indians, the hater of Britons and Spaniards, which we know that he was.
"Paul, there is another gentleman bound for Spain. We shall have company." "What? The astute vicomte, that diplomat?" "Even so. The Vicomte d'Halluys, wit, duelist, devil-may-care, spendthrift. Ho, Vicomte!" the poet called. "Saumaise?" cried the man at the door, coming forward. "Go in, Paul," said the poet; "I want a word with him." The Chevalier passed into the private assembly.
She had gone, like the princes of the blood, through the fire, and the dross of weakness was burned out. The hunchback got on his feet, in position like a duelist, his hard, bitter face turned slantwise toward my father. "Then," he said, "if you know where David is you will take his daughter to him, if you please, and rid my house of the burden of her."
However nobody made fun of Augereau about this, for he was known to be a brave and accomplished duelist, who had given even the celebrated Saint-George, the finest swordsman in France, a run for his money. I have said that Augereau was a good tactician; because of this, my father had appointed him to direct the training of the battalions of new levées, of which the division was largely composed.
Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober ring, cried from the window: "Come here; part the bets!" This was Dolokhov, an officer of the Semenov regiment, a notorious gambler and duelist, who was living with Anatole. Pierre smiled, looking about him merrily. "I don't understand. What's it all about?"
He was known to live mostly on debt and pawn tickets, and was of a most quarrelsome disposition. As a duelist he was feared because of his specialty. This was the ability, and the inclination, through a trick in the use of the foils, to disfigure his opponent's face badly, without at all endangering his life.
At a signal from the chief who is acting as umpire they plunge beneath the water, each duelist keeping his nostrils closed with one hand while with the other he clings to the pole so as to keep his head below the surface.
Life for life, man for man; give me one, I will give you the other." "I don't know what you mean, nor do I even desire to know what you mean," replied the cardinal; "but I wish to please you, and see nothing out of the way in giving you what you demand with respect to so infamous a creature the more so as you tell me this d'Artagnan is a libertine, a duelist, and a traitor."
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