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But " He looked at me with troubled eyes. "It is an extraordinary situation. You have spared him, and he will not wish to be spared, I feel sure. Most remarkable case." "Well, I won't kill him," said I bluntly, having tired of this rubbish. "Damme if I will!" Lord Strepp laughed outright. "It is ridiculous," he said. "Do you return, O'Ruddy, and leave me the care of this business.
"You are a stupid old firebrain," he said affectionately to the Colonel. "Well," said the Colonel jubilantly, "now everything is clear. If Mr. O'Ruddy will have me, I will go with him to meet this Forister; and you, Strepp, will accompany Forister; and we all will meet in a friendly way ahem!" "The situation is intimately involved," said Lord Strepp dejectedly.
I know I have to thank you for great consideration and generosity. I I you " Whereupon we both began to stammer and grimace. All the time I was chocking out: "Pray pray , don't speak of it a nothing in truth, you kindly exaggerate I " It was young Lord Strepp who brought us out of our embarrassment. "Here, you two good fellows," he cried heartily, "a glass of wine with you."
The door into the parlour flew open, and Lord Strepp and Colonel Royale appeared on the threshold, their faces blank with wonder. "Father," cried the young lord, stepping hastily forward, "whatever is wrong?" "That!" screamed the Earl, pointing a palsied finger at me. "That! He comes here and threatens me, a peer of England." The Lady Mary spoke swiftly to her brother and the Colonel.
I gazed upon his ghastly face; I saw the large blood blotches on his shirt; as they drew nearer I saw him roll his eyes and heard him groan. Some of the men recognized me, and I saw black looks and straight-pointing fingers. At the rear walked Lord Strepp with Forister's sword under his arm. I turned away with a new impression of the pastime of duelling.
He was bursting with a sense of social value, and to everybody he seemed to be saying, "Did you see me?" He was overjoyed to find me waiting for him. He needed a good listener at once. Otherwise he would surely fly to pieces. "I have been talking to the Countess of Westport and her daughter, Lady Mary Strepp," he said pompously.
I half arose from my chair with the idea of going at once to the young man who had been indicated as Lord Strepp, and informing him of my errand, but I had a sudden feeling of timidity, a feeling that it was necessary to be proper with these people of high degree. I kept my seat, resolving to accost him directly after supper. I studied him with interest.
"Sir," said I, in the same manner, "I am only too happy to have this little matter adjusted." "And of course the arrangements, sir?" "For them I may refer you to my friend Colonel Royale." "Ah," said the young Lord, as if he had never before seen the Colonel. "I am at your service, sir," said Colonel Royale as if he never in his whole life had heard of Lord Strepp.
The feeling of an ugly quivering wrench communicated itself from the point of my sword to my mind; I heard Strepp and Royale cry "Hold!" I saw Forister fall; I lowered my point and stood dizzily thinking. My sight was now blurred; my arm was weak. My sword had gone deep into Forister's left shoulder, and the bones there had given that hideous feeling of a quivering wrench.
I could not catch a glimpse of Lady Mary's face at all at all, for she kept it turned toward the village; but young Lord Strepp rose in the carriage, and, shaking his fist at me, said: "By God, O'Ruddy, you shall pay for this;" but the effect of the words was somewhat weakened by reason that his sister, Lady Mary, reached out and pulled him by the coat-tails, which caused him to be seated more suddenly than he expected; then she gave me one rapid glance of her eye and turned away her face again.
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