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 the quarrel, 'till he at last, at the close of our merriment, recollected the duel he was going to fight, telling me who was to be his second, to remind him the following day of his killing business, lest his valiant adversary, Captain T, might wait in vain for him.

"Upon my soul," added he, heated with wine, "I wish he was here now, d—m me if I would not send him to Paradise, to rest in Abraham's bosom."

"Why, brother," exclaimed one of the visitors, "could you not have him summoned hither by Volkert?"

"That would indeed be excellent fun!" resumed my friend, "but you know Volkert dare not do it, we must of course let him alone; yet, if the rascal does not come the day after to-morrow, Volkert must be applied to, and, even if I should be obliged to ask the general's permission, he shall