Are you a coward, too, sir, as well as a ruffian ?" "Enough!" the German gasped.
"Swartzberg," he said, turning to his friend, "make the arrangements; for I vow I will kill this insolent puppy in the morning." Lord Fairholm at once stepped forward to the Hessian captain.
"I shall have the honour to act as Mr.Holliday's second.

Here is my card.

I shall be at home all the evening." Rupert now resumed his seat, while Captain Muller and his friend moved to the other end of the saloon.

Here he was surrounded by a number of German officers, who endeavoured to dissuade him from fighting a duel in which the killing of his adversary would be condemned by the whole army as child murder.
"Child or not," he said ferociously, "he dies tomorrow.

You think he was mad to insult me.