He did not show it otherwise, but from the paleness of his face it was plain that he was suffering torments.

The doctors whispered, too, that the membrane of the ear was ruptured, and that all his life long he would be hard of hearing.
Karpathy had to be conducted to his carriage.

But for his sufferings he would have sworn.

He would much rather have had a bullet in his lungs.
Rudolf and Michael then approached the seconds of the opposite party, and asked whether they considered the satisfaction given sufficient.
Livius admitted that everything was now perfectly in order, but Conrad declared that he was so completely satisfied with this duel that he would deserve to be called thief and robber if ever he took part in another as long as he lived.
"Then be so good, gentlemen, as to receipt this bill," said Alexander, turning to the seconds, and producing the written challenge which they had addressed to his master.

"Kindly write at the bottom of it, 'Discharged in full.'" The seconds laughed immensely at the idea, and, procuring a pen and ink from the first shanty they came to, they duly wrote at the bottom of the challenge the words, "Paid in full." The young man thereupon thrust the attested document into his pocket, thanked his own seconds for their kind services, and returned on foot to town..