Chapter XIII

The next day we all met as usual in the smoking-room.

"Well," someone asked me, "what are you going to talk about to-night?"

"Why," I answered, "my subject is exhausted, I have told you all I know, or at any rate all that I think worth knowing."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Lafaugère, _Traité sur les Armes_.

[2] _Académie de l'Espée_, by Gerard Thibault, Antwerp, 1628.

[3]

Dares the nimbler-footed, in manhood's confident ease;
Huge Entellus of limb and of weight,--but his tardier knees
Totter, and troubled breath convulses his towering frame.

VIRGIL, _Aeneid_ V. BOWEN.

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