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of it , inasmuch as my life may be said to be p itted against a phaeton and pair ! Again , gentlemen ; if I should be killed , my wife and children will Absolutely need the money ; but if I kill the captain , his property is absolutely of no sort of use to him , after his funeral expenses are paid ! Nor is the proposition without precedent—many a noble precedent , I am happy to say , for the credit
of human nature . Upon these occasions , some men of refined honour and high courage have thought they could never do enough . When Best shot Lord Camelford , his lordship , on his death-bed , left his antagonist , who was in so-so circumstances , a handsome income , rejoicing , no doubt , that he lived long enough to do such an act of magnanimity and finished honor . I never fired at man or mark in my life . I am sure to be shot . ^
" Oh , but!—yes , but !—you , sir—I , sir , " ejaculated the captain . — " Really , captain /* said the major , biting his lips , " I begin to think , that as men of finished honor , we must accede to the proposal . " The banker now flatly refused to fight on any other terms ,
putting it directly to the major as the most refined point of duelling honor that could be manifested on the occasion , tjll the two officers , though excessively provoked and annoyed , could no longer refuse their consent . The parchment was handed to them by the attorney , who saw it properly signed , and the principals took their stand at fifteen paces distance .
The banker had the first fire . Not wishing to be banished his country , or get into prison , or any other scrape about so foolish a business , we may be sure he took care to aim at no other object , and away flew his ball , like a humming-bird , over the fields .
iC Now ! " ejaculated the major , in a quick undertone—his face reddening , his lips protruding with excitement , his eyebrows drawn close down , and his eye glistening and growing small and narrow , with the sense of a keen aim , — " Now , you ' ve got him I "
" Got him ! " stammered the captaiu—his face turning blue , his mouth opening , his jaw falling , his eyebrows uplifted , and his eyes becoming large , round , and vacant , with the full sense of a fearful dilemma— •« Got him—hit him ! put down my p ha pay five hundred a-year for being called a bullet-headed Tool , and 90 prove it ! Will you pay the money if I hit him ?"
• Of course the captain missed his opponent , though , by the bye , he was deuced near killing the lawyer , who had forgotten to have a similar agreement for himself in case of accidents .
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&& £ Season in Duelling .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 552, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/28/
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