In order to riposte well, you must observe the adversary's time and recovery in guard.
For the father relapsed anew into his old strange melancholies, dozing over his books, indulging feint and ripostein the chapel overhead, or gazing moodily along the imprisoned coast.
He followed on a riposte with a lunge--short, sharp, conclusive, for it took his victim in the chest and passed through at the other side with a thud of the hilt against his body.
Always riposte direct, and be careful on your riposte to avoid making feints which expose you to a remise or to a renewal of the attack.
Riposte and parry ought to be so closely allied that the riposte may seem to be the second part of the parry.
Never forget that the parry and riposte are twin sisters, whose lives are so closely bound up in each other, that they cannot exist apart.
For instance, if he caught the fatal trick of dropping or drawing back his hand, I should take care to make him attack and riposte in the high lines, in order to get him to carry his wrist high, and vice versa.
Therefore, as a general principle, riposte direct, in the line in which you have found the blade.
Septime enveloppee," a riposte by means of a twist and thrust after a parry in septime.
Both the remise and the renewal are valid only when the adversary's riposte does not hit.
The remise is a thrust made after one's first thrust has been parried and in the same line; it must be made in such a way that the adversary's justified riposte is at the same time parried by opposition or completely avoided.
