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 detestable dark transaction of that unhappy fatal night. He entered my room bowing silently, and began, after a portentous pause, to address me thus:

"Sir, you are the second of Mr. C, who has injured me in a most glaring and disgraceful manner; first, by having insulted me in public, and then by having employed infernal arts to torment me; I dare say you are no stranger to the horrid means your friend has made use of in order to let me feel his wrath: I will not publicly accuse your friend of that black shameless transaction, the dreadful effects of which you can still read in my countenance; however, he shall answer me with his heart's blood, for that ignominious transaction, and for the sufferings he has made me undergo. I have written to him, but he has not thought it proper to answer my letter, which is a certain proof of his having been concerned in that horrid deed, the reality of which I am now