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"Beauchaht"

"No he will not, for he will tell you, what is very true, that perhaps there were fifty officers in the Greek arht, nevertheless I will efface that blot on my father's character My father, as such a brave soldier, whose career was so brilliant"-"Oh, well, he will add, 'We are warranted in believing that this Fernand is not the illustrious Count of Morcerf, who also bears the same Christian na short of an entire retractation"

"And you intend to make him do it in the presence of titnesses, do you?"

"Yes"

"You do wrong"

"Which means, I suppose, that you refuse the service which I asked of you?"

"You knowduels; I told you my opinion on that subject, if you remember, ere at Ro engaged in an occupation but little consistent with the notions you profess to entertain"

"Because, my dear fellow, you understand onefools, it is necessary to study folly I shall perhaps find myself one day called out by some harebrained scamp, who has no more real cause of quarrel with me than you have with Beauchamp; he may takehis witnesses, or will insult me in some public place, and I am expected to kill hiht, then? Well, if so, why do you object to ht, I only say that a duel is a serious thing, and ought not to be undertaken without due reflection"

"Did he reflect before he insulted my father?"

"If he spoke hastily, and owns that he did so, you ought to be satisfied"

"Ah, ent"

"And you are far too exacting Supposing, for instance, and do not be angry at what I a the assertion to be really true?"

"A son ought not to submit to such a stain on his father's honor"

"Ma foi, we live in times when there is much to which we e"

"And do you undertake to reform it?"

"Yes, as far as I a, my dear fellow!"