Everybody is sorry, inconsolable, everybody shocked; nobody volunteers to help in avenging.
'Monseigneur de Sulli, is not such atrocity done to one of your guests, an insult to yourself ?' asks Arouet.

'Well, yes perhaps, but'-- Monseigneur de Sulli shrugs his shoulders, and proposes nothing.
Arouet withdrew, of course in a most blazing condition, to consider what he could, on his own strength, do in this conjuncture.
"His Biographer Duvernet says, he decided on doing two things: learning English and the small-sword exercise.

[_La Vie de Voltaire,_ par M--( a Geneve, 1786), pp.

55-57; or pp.

60-63, in his SECOND form of the Book.
The "M--" is an Abbe Duvernet; of no great mark otherwise.