Rapiers and fencing-gloves, _a outrance_.' 'Whom else have you got for seconds ?' 'Roberto Casteldieri and Carlo de Souza.

We settled everything as quickly as possible, avoiding formalities.

Giannetto had got his seconds already.

We arranged the proceedings at the Club without any fuss.

Try not to be too late in going to bed--you must be dead tired.' But, heedless of this good advice, on leaving the Palazzo Giustiniani, Andrea betook himself to the Club, where Santa Margherita came upon him at two o'clock in the morning, and, forcing him to leave the card-tables, bore him off on foot to the Palazzo Zuccari.
'My dear boy,' he said reproachfully as they walked along, 'you are really foolhardy.