In all countries it is the feelings of the generality of people, that courtesy, which is the essence of honour, obliges one to consult.

As in England I should, therefore, have paid, so in France I fought.
If it be said that a French gentleman would not have been equally condescending to a French tradesman, I answer that the former would never have perpetrated the only insult for which the latter might think there could be only one atonement.

Besides, even if this objection held good, there is a difference between the duties of a native and a stranger.

In receiving the advantages of a foreign country, one ought to be doubly careful not to give offence, and it is therefore doubly incumbent upon us to redress it when given.

To the feelings of the person I had offended, there was but one redress.