“The Ethalwoods have been accustomed to fight with their equals.”
“Do you refuse then? Are you so base?”
“I do not refuse—I am at your disposal. I have brought this upon myself—that I freely admit.”
The young earl bitterly regretted his rash act. Not that he was indisposed to any hostile meeting, but he felt both shame and remorse at the action which rage had driven him to commit.
An action which he recognised as being one of odious and unjustifiable brutality. But pride, which was at the bottom of the nature of every member of the race to which he belonged, forbade him from temporising with his adversary.
No. 67.
THE DUEL—DEATH OF GEROME CHANET.
“You demand satisfaction, Monsieur Chanet—so be it. Name your conditions. I will agree to anything you propose.”
“I suppose by that you mean to confer a favour.”