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Pantaleone got up, looked at his watch, straightened his topknot of hair, and hurriedly stuffed into his shoe an end of tape which was sticking out below his trouser-leg, and the young sub-lieutenant came in, as red and embarrassed as ever

Sanin presented the seconds to each other 'M Richter, sous-lieutenant, M Cippatola, artiste!' The sub-lieutenant was slightly disconcerted by the old man's appearanceOh, ould he have said had any one whispered to him at that instant that the 'artist' presented to him was also employed in the culinary art! But Pantaleone assu part in the preliminaries of duels was for him the most everyday affair: probably he was assisted at this juncture by the recollections of his theatrical career, and he played the part of second simply as a part Both he and the sub-lieutenant were silent for a little

'Well? Let us co with his cornelian seal

'By all means,' responded the sub-lieutenant, 'butthe presence of one of the principals '

'I will leave you at once, gentlemen,' cried Sanin, and with a boent away into the bedroo hi of Geh the shut door It was conducted in the French language; both maltreated it ain alluded to the dragoons in Padua, and Principe Tarbuski; the sub-lieutenant to 'exghizes léchères' and 'goups de bistolet à l'ahizes! To Sanin's horror, he suddenly proceeded to talk of a certain young lady, an innocent er orth ella innoucenta, qu'a elle sola dans soun péti doa vale pin que tout le zouffissié del mondo'), and repeated several times with heat: 'It's shameful! it's shameful!' (E ouna onta, ouna onta!) The sub-lieutenant at first ry quiver could be heard in the young man's voice, and he observed that he had not coe it is always a good thing to hear the truth!' cried Pantaleone

The debate between the seconds several times became stormy; it lasted over an hour, and was concluded at last on the following conditions: 'Baron von Dönhof and M de Sanin to meet the next day at ten o'clock in a small wood near Hanau, at the distance of twenty paces; each to have the right to fire twice at a signal given by the seconds, the pistols to be single-triggered and not rifle-barrelled' Herr von Richter withdrew, and Pantaleone sole the result of their deliberations, cried again: 'Bravo Russo! Bravo giovanotto! You will be victor!'