He refused.

I challenged him.

But ere we met, I was ordered to lead a forlorn hope against a bastion.

Then, seeing me go to certain death, the noble fellow pitied me.

I mean this is how I understood it all at the time; at any rate, he promised to marry Rose if he should live." Josephine put out her hand, and with a horrible smile said, "I thank you; you have saved the honor of our family;" and with no more ado, she took the glass in her hand to drink the fatal contents.
But Raynal's reply arrested her hand.