Amelia -- Volume 2

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e verge without any danger of having a warrant backed against him by the board before he had notice. As for the ill-looked person

with some other officers, and very civilly paid his respects to him. But, instead of returning the salute, the colonel looked him full in the face wit

sir," cries the colonel, "if I had not formerly had some respect for you, I should not think you worth my resentment. However, as you are a gentleman born, and an officer, and as I have had an esteem for you, I will give you some marks of it by putting it in your power to do yourself justice. I will tell you therefore, sir, that you have acted like a scoundrel." "If we were not in the Park," answered Booth warmly, "I would thank you very properly for that compliment." "O, sir," crie

, I believe it was not in his power: for he had so long accustomed himself to one and the same strut, that as a horse,

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off his wig and coat, and laid them on the grass, and then, drawing his sword, advanced to Booth

passes, Booth run the colonel through the body and threw him on th

I am convinced that no man who will draw his sword in so gallant a manner is capable of being a rascal. D-n me, give me a buss, my dear boy; I ask your pardon for that infamous appellation I dishonoured your dignity with; but d-n me if it wa

"Why, my dear colonel," said he, "would you force me to this?

ther as long as decency would permit; I could not flatly contradict him, though, indeed, I scarce believed him. But what could I do? If I had not fought with you, I must have been obliged

ven's sake, think of your own preservation. Let

, it slanted so that I apprehend there is little danger of life: however, I think there is enough done to put an honourable end to the affair, especially as y

n usual), Booth set forward to Grosvenor-gate, in order to procure the chair, and soon after returned with one to his fr

s apparently the guilty person, and said, with a smile, "Upon my

now more what belongs to the dignity of a man; and, I believe, I have shewn it at the head of a line o

man who hath been just run through the body is in no manner of danger. But this I think I may assure you, that I yet perceive no very bad symptoms, and, un

aration that this young gentleman is entirely innocent. I forced him to do what he did. My dear Booth, I am pleased matters are as they are. You are the first man that ever gained an advantage over me; but it was very luck

wo combatants took their leave of each other. The colonel, after he was drest, went in a chair to his lodgings, and Booth walked on foot to his

idea; among the rest, it caused him so absolutely to forget the time of the day, that, though he had exce