Her Majesty is as much against the settlement of private quarrels by the appeal to the sword as ever King William was.

However, fashion is too strong even for good Queen Anne.

But it is better not to do more than wing your man.

If you kill him, you run a risk of getting into trouble.

But I have no intention of doing so, unless he provokes me beyond endurance." "Is he a man of note ?" asked Tom, with pardonable curiosity.
"In his way he is; you probably would not know the name; but he has friends in high places: He and I have never loved each other.