The House By The Church-yard - Chapter 16. The Ordeal By Battle
CHAPTER XVI. THE ORDEAL BY BATTLEThe chronicles of the small-sword and pistol are pregnant with horrid and absurd illustrations of certain great moral facts. Let them pass. A duel, we all know, spirit of 'Punch and Judy'--a farce of murder. Sterne's gallant father expired, or near it, with the point...
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