“Well, this glade is admirably adapted for such a purpose, with a variety of roads, by-places, paths, ditches, windings, and avenues. We could not find a better spot.”
“I am perfectly satisfied, if you are so. We are at our destination, if I am not mistaken.”
“Yes. Look at the beautiful open space in the center. The faint light which the stars afford seems concentrated in this spot; the woods which surround it seem, with their barriers, to form its natural limits.”
“Very good. Do as you say.”
“Let us first settle the conditions.”
“These are mine; if you have any objection to make you will state it.”
“I am listening.”
“If the horse be killed, its rider will be obliged to fight on foot.”
“That is a matter of course, since we have no change of horses here.”
“But that does not oblige his adversary to dismount.”