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Updated: May 24, 2025
The pose is superb, but less terrific than that assumed when the fight is to be to the death. Then one of the grappling-hooks with a sudden spring flies out and strikes the rival; with the same suddenness it flies back and assumes a position of guard. The adversary replies with a riposte. The fencing reminds one not a little of two cats boxing one another's ears.
Strong he was, but there were advantages of reach and suppleness with me, and even these advantages apart, had I aimed at his life, I could have made short work of him. But the game I played was fraught with perils to myself, and once I was in deadly danger, and as near death from the sword as a man may go and live. My attack had lured him, as I desired that it should, into making a riposte.
Sylvia's riposte to this was the speculation that Mary had scared him away, but one could see that her brother's explanation pleased her. "Anyhow," she concluded, "he was good while he lasted." What held Mary together was the obvious fact that none of them saw no more than they had seen anything. Not one curious or questioning glance was turned her way.
Liane Delorme! Those syllables were like a spoken spell to break the power of dark enchantment which had hampered Lanyard's memory ever since first sight of this woman in the Café de l'Univers at Nant. A great light began to flood his understanding, but he was denied time to advantage himself immediately of its illumination: Liane Delorme was quick to parry and riposte.
For a moment or two the fight went on with no special feat, but so hearty became the action that Iberville, seeing Gering flag a little, due somewhat to loss of blood, suddenly opened such a rapid attack on the advance that it was all Gering could do to parry, without thought of riposte, the successive lunges of the swift blade.
"She calls me lucus a non lucendo," was John's quick riposte; and the lady laughed. But in a moment she pulled a straight face. "I seriously counsel you to have more faith," she said. "Go home and ask her to marry you; and if she accepts, you'll see. Money will come. Besides, your rank and your prospective rank are assets which you err in not adding to the balance. Go home, and propose to her."
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