Her Highness, on hearing of the affair, flies to rescue the Englishman, sends her affianced husband to prison, but permits the otherduellist to go free.
He would, therefore, swallow his pride, and for the first time in his career as duellist cry off from the combat by making an apology.
The duellist when hard pressed is apt to give way before his opponent.
Their gayety will turn to mortification after next week's vote shall have been taken.
This is the terrible Count de Comminges, the duellistof the day, the chief of those raffinés who fought on every pretext, and often on no pretext at all.
The politeness of the raffinés is as overpowering as their envy is ill concealed; and, as to the ladies, in those days the character of a successful duellist was a sure passport to their favour.
Bowie was a noted duellist {254} in his day, and died heroically in the famous siege of the Alamo[2].
Andrew Jackson as a Duellist Comparatively speaking, the next great duel on my list attracted little more than local attention at the time.
The most famous duellist of the age was Montmorenci, Count de Bouttville.
Such feeble spirits there are--the heart of a duellist should be made of sterner stuff.
A thicker glove is fastened to the paukhosen behind for the left hand, or should the duellist happen to be left-handed, for the right, to keep it out of the way during the fight.
Each duellist is, in fact, conducted into a chamber by his witness and second, and clothed in the duel costume.
We have stated that it is a disgrace to the duellist if, before the round is ended, he goes backwards off the measure.
The duellist takes the end of the riband which secures the glove in his hand until a similar one has been passed round the elbow.
Allowing for each duellist three feet from where he stands to the end of the muzzle of his pistol they would have only three yards between the muzzles of their pistols.
On a recent occasion, when a duellist had not fired when the word was given, someone had the bad taste to ask him why he did not shoot.
A proficient duellist stands as full face as a man shooting a gun.
This one successful shot is all that is necessary, even for an expert duellist before a duel.
In a sword duel the duellist can parry; in a pistol one, he cannot parry, but he can shoot first.
If a duellistis killed, his adversary must stand by the body till the police arrive, and deliver himself up to them.
Spicca is, on the contrary, admirably drawn, and the regard we feel for the merciless oldduellist is roused in us with true art.
But for the duellist and soldier of fortune it was impossible to sympathize with a man who took no greater risk in life than to ride on one of his own railroads, and of the views the two men held of each other, that of John H.
The soldier of varying fortunes, the duellist and dreamer, the devout Catholic and devout Buddhist, saw the forty-third year of his life only as the meeting-place of many fiascos.
It was not death that a duellist feared: it was shame, and the contempt of his fellows.
These considerations appear to have weighed with the jury, and this fierce duellist was again found guilty of manslaughter only, and escaped with a merely nominal punishment.
You have taught the boy to become a sot; in time, were he to remain under your guidance, I make no doubt but that he would become a gamester and a duellist as well.
The experienced duellist would have steadied his nerves by as long a sleep as possible.
It all turned on the article in the code of honour that forbids a duellist to make use of arms which he has already tried, and with which he is proficient.
The old Prince had been a duellist in his day, and he would no more have thought of advising his son not to fight than of refusing a challenge himself.
Him his contemporary Theseus succeeded in the Bear Garden, which honour he held for many years: this grand duellist went to hell, and was the only one of that sort that ever came back again.
As he stood there in his shrunken condition, he about as much resembled the pompous and arrogant duellist of a half-hour previous as a wet and bedraggled turkey does the strutting, gobbling cock of the flock.
The old duellist made his choice with due deliberation.
However, he took the Governor's professional duellist out behind a row of palms one sunny morning and shot him--a beautiful bit of work.
He had insulted and shot men before, but he never knew that Cunningham was a professional duellist himself.
This singular feat on the part of the young officer, when opposed to so skilled a duellist as Captain M--l, has created a profound sensation throughout the garrison.
But if ever I did go out with a notorious duellist who forced the duel upon me, I should like to stop his shooting for the rest of his life.
To a wounded duellist and his friends," replied Adeline.
And that wounded duellist and one of his companions are well known to you," said Lydia, impressively.
I believe this was proposed by Captain Delmar, in preference to the morning, as he knew his antagonist was a regular duellist and he wished to have the next day to put his affairs in order, previous to the meeting.
Fred Churbett had always known that Duellist was thrown away as a hackney; and now that there was something more to be jumped than the Benmohr leaping-bar, did not care how early he got up.
The gallant colonel entered the room, looking as little like the dead shot and notorious duellist he was reported to be, as any fine gentleman could.
Good-night and pleasant dreams to a duellist on the eve of a duel!
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