A Gentleman from Gascony: A Romance of the Huguenots — page 129: what you’re looking at

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A DUEL WITH SWORD AND DAGGER. 125 The chevalier, who was now entirely cool, found no difficulty in parrying the thrust.with his own sword, but the onslaught of the duke was so furious that the latter found it impossible to stop his impetus and he dashed himself against the chevalier, literally impaling himself upon the dagger which Raoul was holding point outward to protect his breast. : With a loud cry De Bassompierre staggered and fell, measuring his full length upon the ground. Count Lemours rushed forward and raised the head upon his knee. In another moment he looked up and muttered brokenly: “He is dead!” Dead! Raoul stood as if thunderstruck, and, with a sudden revulsion of feeling, a great wave of pity stole over him for the young man thus cut off in the prime of life by an accident, for accident it surely was. Another blare of trumpets and a still louder pound- ing upon the door! Raoul was roused from his sad revery by Mirza, who pulled him by the sleeve and pointed toward the win- dow, whispering: “Fly, chevalier, or you are lost. The guard are sur- rounding the house. Thereisonly one way. Theriver!” “A choice between fire and water! Mordiou! here goes for the water.” Hurriedly sheathing his sword, he snatched up his hat and ran lightly up the wooden staircase and out upon the balcony, just as Sergeant Goujon lifted the bar and admitted the soldiers of the guard, screaming to them as they poured in: “The Duke de Bassompierre is killed! There is the assassin !”’ Comichoo SS (E(©)