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I was on thorns the whole time, in terror lest the heroine might make some dreadful slip. She danced so

gracefully that everybody gazed at her, and I was the person who was complimented on her performance.

I suffered a martyrdom, for these compliments seemed to be given with malicious intent. I suspected that the

ballet-girl had been discovered beneath the countess, and I felt myself dishonoured. I succeeded in speaking

privately to the young wanton for a moment, and begged her to dance like a young lady, and not like a chorus

girl; but she was proud of her success, and dared to tell me that a young lady might know how to dance as

well as a professional dancer, and that she was not going to dance badly to please me. I was so enraged with

her impudence, that I would have cast her off that instant if it had been possible; but as it was not, I

determined that her punishment should lose none of its sharpness by waiting; and whether it be a vice or a

virtue, the desire of revenge is never extinguished in my heart till it is satisfied.

The day after the ball Madame d'Urfe presented her with a casket containing a beautiful watch set with

brilliants, a pair of diamond ear-rings, and a ring containing a ruby of fifteen carats. The whole was worth

sixty thousand francs. I took possession of it to prevent her going off without my leave.

In the meanwhile I amused myself with play and making bad acquaintances. The worst of all was a French

officer, named d'Ache, who had a pretty wife and a daughter prettier still. Before long the daughter had taken

possession of the heart which the Corticelli had lost, but as soon as Madame d'Ache saw that I preferred her

daughter to herself she refused to receive me at her house.

I had lent d'Ache ten Louis, and I consequently felt myself entitled to complain of his wife's conduct; but he

answered rudely that as I only went to the house after his daughter, his wife was quite right; that he intended

his daughter to make a good match, and that if my intentions were honourable I had only to speak to the

mother. His manner was still more offensive than his words, and I felt enraged, but knowing the brutal

drunken characteristics of the man, and that he was always ready to draw cold steel for a yes or a no, I was

silent and resolved to forget the girl, not caring to become involved with a man like her father.

I had almost cured myself of my fancy when, a few days after our conversation, I happened to go into a

billiard-room where d'Ache was playing with a Swiss named Schmit, an officer in the Swedish army. As soon

as d'Ache saw me he asked whether I would lay the ten Louis he owed me against him.

"Yes," said I, "that will make double or quits."

CHAPTER XV

1161

Towards the end of the match d'Ache made an unfair stroke, which was so evident that the marker told him of

it; but as this stroke made him the winner, d'Ache seized the stakes and put them in his pocket without

heeding the marker or the other player, who, seeing himself cheated before his very eyes, gave the rascal a

blow across the face with his cue. D'Ache parried the blow with his hand, and drawing his sword rushed at

Schmit, who had no arms. The marker, a sturdy young fellow, caught hold of d'Ache round the body, and thus

prevented murder. The Swiss went out, saying,

"We shall see each other again."

The rascally Frenchman cooled down, and said to me,

"Now, you see, we are quits."

"Very much quits."

"That's all very well; but, by God! you might have prevented the insult which has dishonoured me."

"I might have done so, but I did not care to interfere. You are strong enough to look after yourself. Schmit had

not his sword, but I believe him to be a brave man; and he will give you satisfaction if you will return him his

money, for there can be no doubt that you lost the match."

An officer, named de Pyene, took me up and said that he himself would give me the twenty louis which

d'Ache had taken, but that the Swiss must give satisfaction. I had no hesitation in promising that he would do

so, and said I would bring a reply to the challenge the next morning.

I had no fears myself. The man of honour ought always to be ready to use the sword to defend himself from

insult, or to give satisfaction for an insult he has offered. I know that the law of duelling is a prejudice which

may be called, and perhaps rightly, barbarous, but it is a prejudice which no man of honour can contend

against, and I believed Schmit to be a thorough gentleman.

I called on him at day-break, and found him still in bed. As soon as he saw me, he said,

"I am sure you have come to ask me to fight with d'Ache. I am quite ready to burn powder with him, but he

must first pay me the twenty Louis he robbed me of."

"You shall have them to-morrow, and I will attend you. D'Ache will be seconded by M. de Pyene."

"Very good. I shall expect you at day-break."

Two hours after I saw de Pyene, and we fixed the meeting for the next day, at six o'clock in the morning. The

arms were to be pistols. We chose a garden, half a league from the town, as the scene of the combat.

At day-break I found the Swiss waiting for me at the door of his lodgings, carolling the 'ranz-des-vaches', so

dear to his fellow- countrymen. I thought that a good omen.

"Here you are," said he; "let us be off, then."

On the way, he observed, "I have only fought with men of honour up to now, and I don't much care for killing

a rascal; it's hangman's work."

"I know," I replied, "that it's very hard to have to risk one's life against a fellow like that."

CHAPTER XV

1162

"There's no risk," said Schmit, with a laugh. "I am certain that I shall kill him."

"How can you be certain?"

"I shall make him tremble."

He was right. This secret is infallible when it is applied to a coward. We found d'Ache and de Pyene on the

field, and five or six others who must have been present from motives of curiosity.

D'Ache took twenty louis from his pocket and gave them to his enemy, saying,

"I may be mistaken, but I hope to make you pay dearly for your brutality." Then turning to me he said,

"I owe you twenty louis also;" but I made no reply.

Schmit put the money in his purse with the calmest air imaginable, and making no reply to the other's boast

placed himself between two trees, distant about four paces from one another, and drawing two pistols from his

pocket said to d'Ache,

"Place yourself at a distance of ten paces, and fire first. I shall walk to and fro between these two trees, and

you may walk as far if you like to do so when my turn comes to fire."

Nothing could be clearer or more calmly delivered than this explanation.

"But we must decide," said I, "who is to have the first shot."

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