Will you permit my sincerest apologies to suffice?
A man who can so well resent an injury, can forgive one." Was there ever a Frenchman not taken by a fine phrase?
My hero received the sword with a low bow--the tears came into his eyes.
"Sir," said he, "you have twice conquered." We left the spot with the greatest amity and affection, and re-entered, with a profusion of bows, our several fiacres.
"Let me," I said, when I found myself alone with my second, "let me thank you most cordially for your assistance; and allow me to cultivate an acquaintance so singularly begun.

I lodge at the Hotel de--, Rue de Rivoli; my name is Pelham.

Your's is--" "Thornton," replied my countryman.

"I will lose no time in profiting by an offer of acquaintance which does me so much honour." With these and various other fine speeches, we employed the time till I was set down at my hotel; and my companion, drawing his cloak round him, departed on foot, to fulfil (he said, with a mysterious air) a certain assignation in the Faubourg St.Germain.
I said to Mr.Thornton, that I would give him many reasons for fighting after I had fought.

As I do not remember that I ever did, and as I am very unwilling that they should be lost, I am now going to bestow them on the reader.