Could she not obtain from him the promise to discharge his … - Paul Bourget

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Could she not obtain from him the promise to discharge his weapon in the air, if the duel was with pistols, or, if it was with swords, simply to disarm his enemy? Like nearly all persons unversed in the art, she believed in infallible fencers, in marksmen who never missed their aim, and she had also ideas profoundly, absolutely inexact on the relations of one man with another in the matter of an insult.

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Paul Charles Joseph Bourget (2 September 1852 – 25 December 1935) was a French novelist and critic.

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