"What did you fight with, then?"
"With swords."
"You didn't have any."
"That gentleman had a whole arsenal in his carriage."
"Mon Dieu! And which of you was killed?"
"Why, your question is rather beside the mark. Do I look like a dead man?"
"Ah! that's so. It was the other man, then? Poor young man!"
"Don't be alarmed; he isn't dead, and he won't die. A simple wound—and I warned him, too; I said: 'You strike down too much!'—He fences rather well, but he isn't in my class yet."
"You villain! always in trouble—fighting duels. But what if he had killed you, eh?"
"In that case, superb Louchard, I should not, at this moment, have the pleasure of gazing upon your strongly-marked features."