"Scenes in these cases are in very bad taste." "Your duel itself is a scene," said Newman; "that's all it is! It's a wretched theatrical affair.

Why don't you take a band of music with you outright?
It's d--d barbarous and it's d--d corrupt, both." "Oh, I can't begin, at this time of day, to defend the theory of dueling," said Valentin.

"It is our custom, and I think it is a good thing.

Quite apart from the goodness of the cause in which a duel may be fought, it has a kind of picturesque charm which in this age of vile prose seems to me greatly to recommend it.

It's a remnant of a higher-tempered time; one ought to cling to it.