I ought to have brought a riding-whip instead of a sword!" But Fougas, panting and furious, had already turned upon him.
"Hold on there!" cried he; "I have shown you the horseman; now I will show you the soldier!" He lanched a thrust at him, which would have gone through him like a hoop if M.du Marnet had not been as prompt as at parade.

He retorted by a fine cut _en quarte_, powerful enough to cut the invincible Fougas in two.

But the other was nimbler than a monkey.

He wholly shielded his body by letting himself slide to the ground, and then remounted his horse in the same second.
"My compliments!" said M.du Marnet.

"They don't do any better than that in the circus." "No more do they in war," rejoined the other.