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and that such weapons are good enough
to avenge the kind of honor which they
possess. But when a gentleman acts as a
gentleman, the authorities have nothing to
say, and they say nothing. I have had
fifteen or twenty such affairs, since I left
the service; and some of them turned out
rather badly for my adversaries. Have
you ever seen my name in the Police Gazette?"
M. Steimbourg was less intimate with
M. l'Ambert than the Marquis de Villemaurin was. He had not, like the Marquis, had all his title-deeds in the office
in the Rue de Verneuil for four or five
generations; he did not even know the
two other gentlemen, except at the club,
and at whist-parties, possibly, too, through
some commissions which the notary had
thrown in his way. But he was a good
fellow, and a man of sense; and he indulged, in his turn, in a considerable ex