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wars between nations, and not of private duels; for of the latter I do
short, it is a modern custom, introduced by barbarous nations since
defiance of the Christian law, and is consequently much more sinful in
cause; for I perceive we shall never agree on this. You are a
fight for it to the last drop of my blood."
"It is very generous in you, colonel.html">colonel.html">colonel," cries the doctor.html">doctor, "to fight so
gown; for, by all the dignity of a man.html">man, if any other person had said
d--n me, and my sword into the bargain."
Booth began to be apprehensive that this dispute might grow too warm;
champagne, might hurry him so far as to forget the respect due, and
interposed between the disputants, and said that the colonel had very
reconcile accepting a challenge with the Christian religion, or
doctor," said he, "to be a very hard injunction for a man to become
into the bargain."
"Ay, sir," says the colonel, with an air of triumph, "what say you.
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