'We are alone, it is night, and I am wholly resolved.

Are you not frightened ?' 'No,' he said, 'not in the smallest.

I do not box, sir; but I am not a coward, as you may have supposed.

Perhaps it will simplify our relations if I tell you at the outset that I walk armed.' Quick as lightning I made a feint at his head; as quickly he gave ground, and at the same time I saw a pistol glitter in his hand.
'No more of that, Mr.French-Prisoner!' he said.

'It will do me no good to have your death at my door.' 'Faith, nor me either!' said I; and I lowered my stick and considered the man, not without a twinkle of admiration.