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A LITTLE RELATIVE OF IAGO.
The remorse which Montfanon expressed so naively, once acknowledged to himself, increased rapidly in the honest man's heart.

He had reason to say from the beginning that the affair looked bad.

A quarrel, together with assault, or an attempt at assault, would not be easily set right.
It required a diplomatic miracle.

The slightest lack of self-possession on the part of the seconds is equivalent to a catastrophe.