"Why three, when we are only two ?" "Ah! I had forgotten," replied the Englishman.

"M.

de Barjols, as much in your interest as in his own, asked permission to bring a surgeon, one of his friends." "What for ?" harshly demanded Roland, frowning.
"Why, in case either one of you was wounded.

A man's life can often be saved by bleeding him promptly." "Sir John," exclaimed Roland, ferociously, "I don't understand these delicacies in the matter of a duel.

When men fight they fight to kill.
That they exchange all sorts of courtesies beforehand, as your ancestors did at Fontenoy, is all right; but, once the swords are unsheathed or the pistols loaded, one life must pay for the trouble they have taken and the heart beats they have lost.