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Since the nocturnal scene at the inn near Loudun, he had not been able to resume sufficient empire over his mind to occupy himself with anything save his cherished though sad reflections; and consumption was already threatening him, when happily he arrived at the camp of Perpignan, and happily also had the opportunity of accepting the proposition of the Abbe de Gondi for the reader has no doubt recognized Cinq-Mars in the person of that young stranger in mourning, so careless and so melancholy, whom the duellist in the cassock invited to be his second.
It is a very valuable one too, infinitely more effective than the fantastical code of the duellist, which favours the person who inflicts the injury, affording him facilities for murdering or maiming the person injured.
Shortly after their arrival they were celebrated in the news papers as the first millionaire American family of natural-gas extraction who had arrived in the capital of civilization; and at a French watering-place Christine encountered her fate a nobleman full of present debts and of duels in the past. Fulkerson says the old man can manage the debtor, and Christine can look out for the duellist.
Meantime, like some fiery-heated duellist calling on urgent business at frosty daybreak, and long kept waiting at the door by the dilatoriness of his antagonist, shrinking at the idea of getting up to be cut to pieces in the cold the Ranger, with a better breeze, impatiently tacked to and fro in the channel.
As for Lupin, I read in the radiance of his glance the joy of the duellist who at length encounters the sword of his hated rival. "Is the article in the printer's hands?" "Not yet." "Have you it there on you?" "No fear! I shouldn't have it by now, in that case!" "Then " "One of the assistant editors has it, in a sealed envelope. If I am not at the office by midnight, he will have set it up."
The Count Gaston Raoulx de Raousset-Boulbon was a young French nobleman and Soldier of Fortune, a chasseur d'Afrique, a duellist, journalist, dreamer, who came to California to dig gold. Baron Harden-Hickey, who was born in San Francisco a few years after Boulbon at the age of thirty was shot in Mexico, also was inspired to dreams of conquest by this same gentleman adventurer.
I think I know enough about him to warrant me in saying so. 'May I ask his name? inquired I. 'Oh! did not I tell you his name? rejoined he. 'You should have heard that first; he and his name are equally well known. You will recognise the individual at once when I tell you that his name is Fitzgerald. 'Fitzgerald! I repeated. 'Fitzgerald! can it be Fitzgerald the duellist?
But it was not until after midnight that the duellist sealed the envelopes, directed them and knocked at his second's door to say: "I shall entrust these letters to you, Harry. You must see that they start on their way tomorrow." Then he went to bed and to sleep. At six his second, who had slept but little, called him. They dressed hurriedly and prepared for the ride to the valley.
Juanita moved her toe within her neat black slipper, looking at it critically. She was waiting for Evasio Mon. He paused as a duellist may pause with his best weapons laid out on the table before him, wondering which one to select. Perhaps he suspected that Juanita held the keenest; that deadly plain-speaking.
Dexterous penmanship is a source of the same sort of pride as that which animates the skillful rifleman, the practiced duellist, or well-trained billiard-player. With a clean Gillott he fetches down a capitalist, at three or six months, for a cool hundred or a round thousand; just as a Scrope drops over a stag at ten, or a Gordon Cumming a monstrous male elephant at a hundred paces.
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