“I shall not be touched.”
“But, at least, wait for the issue of the duel, before you send your letter.”
“It would be perfectly useless.”
He rang, the servant appeared.
“Joseph,” said he, “take this letter to the post.”
“But have you seen your dead brother?”
“Yes,” he answered.
It is a very strange thing the occurrence of these two duels so close together, and in each of which one of the two combatants was doomed. While we were talking the Baron Giordano arrived. It was eight o’clock, so we started.
Lucien was very anxious to arrive first, so we were on the field ten minutes before the hour.