And Gad, sir, you're making a precedent for this sort of thing! you are offering a premium to widows and orphans.

A gentleman won't be able to exchange shots with another without making himself liable for damages.

I am willing to admit that your feelings--though, in my opinion--er--exaggerated--do you credit; but I am satisfied that they are utterly misunderstood--sir." "Not by all of them," said Corbin darkly.
"Eh ?" returned the Colonel quickly.
"There was another letter here which I didn't particularly point out to you," said Corbin, taking up the letters again, "for I reckoned it wasn't evidence, so to speak, being from HIS COUSIN, a girl,--and calculated you'd read it when I was out." The Colonel coughed hastily.

"I was in fact--er--just about to glance over it when you came in." "It was written," continued Corbin, selecting a letter more bethumbed than the others, "after the old woman had threatened me.

This here young woman allows that she is sorry that her aunt has to take money of me on account of her cousin being killed, and she is still sorrier that she is so bitter against me.