I love danger and court it.

I take positive delight in it.

I attacked the Baron de Sigognac 'secundum artem,' and with one of my very best swords--made by Alonzo de Sahagun, the elder, of Toledo." "Well, and what happened then ?" said the young duke eagerly.

"It would seem that you could not have been victorious, since you wish to refund this money, which was to pay you for despatching him." "First let me inform your highness that in the course of my duels and combats, of one sort and another, I have left no less than thirty-seven men stretched dead upon the ground--and that without counting in all those I have wounded mortally or crippled for life.

But this Baron de Sigognac intrenched himself within a circle of flashing steel as impenetrable as the walls of a granite fortress.