The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3
By George Augustus Sala
10 Sep, 2020
[...]ours was a mighty Gay Nobility thirty or forty years since-to entertain Men of Honour, Daring, and Ability, cunning in the use of their Swords, and exceedingly discreet in their conversations, to attend them upon their private affairs, and rende
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[...]ours was a mighty Gay Nobility thirty or forty years since-to entertain Men of Honour, Daring, and Ability, cunning in the use of their Swords, and exceedingly discreet in their conversations, to attend them upon their private affairs, and render to them Services of a kind that required Secrecy as well as Courage. One or two Duels in Hyde Park and behind Montagu House, in which I had the honour to be concerned as Second, -and in one of which I engaged the Second of my Patron's Adversary, and succeeded, by two dexterous side slices, in Quincing his face as neatly as a housewife would slice Fruit for a Devonshire Squab Pie, -gained me the notice of some of the Highest Nobility, to whom I was otherwise recommended by the easiness of[...]. Less