The Only Approved Guide Through All the Stages of a Quarrel - Containing the Royal Code of Honor; Reflections Upon Duelling; And the Outline of a Court for the Adjustment of Disputes, With Anecdotes, Documents and Cases, Interesting to... #233971

The princes, noblemen, and gentlemen of Christendom must have ascertained, by reading or their own experience, that, constituted as society at present is, they possess no adequate security against a challenge or offence.<br><br>Major Dawson, with whose com age and good humour we are familiar, was challenged by a brother officer of equal rank, for merely pressing him to take another goblet; and General Barry was challenged by a Captain Smith, for refusing to take wine with him at dinner in a steam packet. The General in vain attempted to excuse himself, by declaring that wine invariably made him sick at sea.