However, he agreed to my requirement.
This accounts for the fact that in all the newspaper reports M.
Gambetta's second was apparently a Frenchman.
First, we drew up my principal's will.

I insisted upon this, and stuck to my point.

I said I had never heard of a man in his right mind going out to fight a duel without first making his will.

He said he had never heard of a man in his right mind doing anything of the kind.

When he had finished the will, he wished to proceed to a choice of his "last words." He wanted to know how the following words, as a dying exclamation, struck me: "I die for my God, for my country, for freedom of speech, for progress, and the universal brotherhood of man!" I objected that this would require too lingering a death; it was a good speech for a consumptive, but not suited to the exigencies of the field of honor.