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He is but little weaker than Lemoine, and Lemoine is a fair match with a small-sword for any man out of London. Brady in Dublin, possibly, and perhaps half a dozen in England are his betters, but " he stopped abruptly, his ear catching a snigger at the window. "I need not trouble you with that," he concluded lamely.
'Tis a thousand pities you had not joined sooner and so had the red coat and small-sword to grace you here." When they were gone, Dick laughed sardonically. "Saw you ever such a cool-blood little jade in all your life? 'Twas with me as it was with you; I, too, stumbled upon them, and the colonel bustled me and set his heel on my foot.
It was a plain case that I should get badly and ridiculously whipped, if I attempted to cope with him in any pugilistic encounter. But how would it do to demand of him the satisfaction of a gentleman? True, I knew nothing of pistol-shooting, and had never handled a small-sword. No matter for that!
And with that he hung my small-sword, whisked the powder from my shoulders with a bit of cambric, chose a laced handkerchief for me, and, ere I could remonstrate, passed a tiny jewelled pin into my powdered hair, where it sparkled like a frost crystal. "I'm no macaroni!" I said, angrily; "take it away!" "Cap'in Ormond, suh, you sho' is de fines' young gemm'n in de province, suh," he pleaded.
"Have you ever fought a duel?" he blurted out. "Used to a bit. Not now." "Why? d'you think it wrong?" The other flung back a merry laugh. "No, my little Puritan. I gave it up, because it gave me up. You see, I never quite met my match with the small-sword. Or rather I did meet my match once, but the beggar wouldn't fight." "Do tell," panted Kit, scenting a story.
It is the same school in which the writers of what used to be called our classical period learned the superior efficacy of the French small-sword as compared with the English cudgel, and Mr. James shows the graceful suppleness of that excellent academy of fence in which a man distinguishes by effacing himself.
I put myself in a posture of defence, and aware of the superiority of my weapon, a rapier or small-sword, was little afraid of the issue of the contest. The Bailie behaved with unexpected mettle.
It would seem that the lightness and consequent "handiness" of the rapier must more than make up for the length and strength of the more ponderous arm. Conflicts between the sword and bayonet are common enough, but it is the broad-sword, as a rule; and one does not often see the bayonet, opposed to the small-sword, used exclusively for thrusting.
Differences of race must account for these eccentricities of nature; we cannot otherwise explain them, nor the mental antagonisms, But the awkward and the shy do not always take refuge in a cold manner; Sometimes they study manner as they would the small-sword exercise, and exploit it-with equal fervor.
And he explained himself, explained at last his extraordinary forbearance under a blow. "If you think I have practised the small-sword every day of my life for ten years to suffer myself to be shot at like a rabbit in the end ho, really!" He laughed aloud. "You have challenged me, I think, Sir Terence.
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