It would be much wiser." "What would people say of me ?" he exclaimed.

"No; I have buried nine already.

The fellow doesn't seem as if he knew much; he went from school to the army, and there he was always fighting till 1815; then he went to America, and I doubt if the brute ever set foot in a fencing-alley; while I have no match with the sabre.

The sabre is his arm; I shall seem very generous in offering it to him,--for I mean, if possible, to let him insult me,--and I can easily run him through.

Unquestionably, it is my wisest course.