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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Yes, and have not courage enough to sustain it. I have defied you to your teeth, and you refuse to fight." "My principles are opposed to duelling. In the words of the lady whose preference honors me, 'I honor the soldier as much as I detest the duellist. Besides, has not the marshal strictly forbidden duels in the camp?
And now began one of the most exciting running duels between the contending forces.
The treachery was revealed to him by a rival, who played on this occasion the infamous role of Iago. Campvallon laid aside his starred epaulettes, and in two successive duels, still remembered in Africa, killed on two successive days the guilty one and his betrayer. His wife died shortly after, and he was left more lonely than ever.
He regrets that the laws against duels have been ineffectual; and is of opinion, that they can never attain their end, unless the princes of Europe shall agree not to afford an asylum to duellists, and to punish all who shall insult their equals, either by word, deed, or writing. He seems to suspect this scheme of being chimerical.
Captain Perez was a veteran soldier, and was the most expert swordsman in the army. He was famed for his quarrelsome disposition; had already fought many duels, in which he had invariably killed his man. In a rencontre between the youthful De Soto and the veteran Captain Perez, there could be no doubt in the mind of the governor as to the result.
You'll see his name on Jonah Barrington's red list. He stood out to the last against the Union, wouldn't be bribed, and fought two duels with Castlereagh's bravoes. The curious thing is that the present man is quite proud of that ancestor in a queer, inconsistent sort of way. Says the only mark of distinction his family can boast of is that they didn't get a Union peerage. Strange, isn't it?
It would be as fair to say that these duels show how aggressive are your Prussian officers towards my quiet and patient countrymen. "Now you can retire, cornet." Fergus gave the military salute, and retired to the anteroom. "Have you passed muster?" Lindsay asked with a laugh. "Yes; at least the king found nothing wrong. He was not at all what I thought he would be."
Archibald, oppressed with the sense of his own meanness, and somewhat alarmed at the idea of fighting three duels, to retrieve his credit, thought it best to submit, without struggle, in the first instance, to that public disgrace which he had merited.
In fact, it was my duty to conceal from my husband anything which might involve him in duels. Now that we are friends, of course it is entirely different." The Duchess smiled; the Duke walked up and down the room with the contained ferocity of a caged tiger. "In duels! in a whole series of duels! So these seducers besiege you in platoons. Ma foi, friendship is a good oculist!
"I see," said Earl Raincy, "between the two of you, you could have accounted for an army of Duke's favourites!" "Perhaps," said Julian Wemyss, "but to get back to what we were saying, the question is what are we to do with Patsy? I do not mean to spend my whole life in exile, and though we simply could not let Wargrove pass, we cannot go on fighting duels for the sake of this young woman.
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