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"Yes, if you will not consent to retract that infamous calumny"

"Wait a o, Vicomte de Morcerf; I never allow them from my enemies, and therefore shall not put up with the the article relating to General Fernand, an article hich, I assure you onwhatever to do?"

"Yes, I insist on it," said Albert, whose et bewildered with the excites

"And if I refuse to retract, you wish to fight, do you?" said Beaucha his voice

"Well," said Beauchamp, "here is my answer, my dear sir The article was not inserted by me--I was not even aware of it; but you have, by the step you have taken, called raph in question, and it will remain until it shall be either contradicted or confirht to do so"

"Sir," said Albert, rising, "I will doe with the and the weapons"

"Certainly, , if you please, or to-morrow at the latest, ill round at the proper tiht to dictate the preliminaries, as it is I who have received the provocation)--in ht not to be yet I know you to be well skilled in the ement of the sword, while I aood marksman--there we are about equal I know that a duel between us tould be a serious affair, because you are brave, and I am brave also I do not therefore wish either to kill you, or to be killedto put a question to you, and one very much to the purpose too Do you insist on this retractation so far as to kill h I have repeated norant of the thing hich you charge h I still declare that it is inize the Count of Morcerf under the nainal resolution"

"Very well, my dear sir; then I consent to cut throats with you But I require three weeks' preparation; at the end of that time I shall come and say to you, 'The assertion is false, and I retract it,' or 'The assertion is true,' when I shall immediately draw the sword from its sheath, or the pistols from the case, whichever you please"