"Oui, Monsieur," said he, speaking very loud, and very quick, "they belong to me, and I insist upon your immediately restoring them, or vindicating your claim to them by arms." "You leave me but one answer, Monsieur," said I; "I will find a friend to wait upon you immediately.

Allow me to inquire your address ?" The Frenchman, who was greatly agitated, produced a card.

We bowed and separated.
I was glancing over the address I held in my hand, which was--C.
D'Azimart, Rue de Bourbon Numero--, when my ears were saluted with-- "'Now do you know me ?--thou shouldst be Alonzo.'" I did not require the faculty of sight to recognize Lord Vincent.

"My dear fellow," said I, "I am rejoiced to see you!" and thereupon I poured into his ear the particulars of my morning adventure.

Lord Vincent listened to me with much apparent interest, and spoke very unaffectedly of his readiness to serve me, and his regret at the occasion.
"Pooh." said I, "a duel in France, is not like one in England; the former is a matter of course; a trifle of common occurrence; one makes an engagement to fight, in the same breath as an engagement to dine; but the latter is a thing of state and solemnity--long faces--early rising--and willmaking.