11/19 -- I have seen two hundred." "Two hundred duels, Mr.Herder!" "Yes. -- I have seen four men killed." "Were _you_ ever hurt, Mr.Herder ?" said Rose. I saw how it was -- that the only thing to do was to excel ozers; so as in ozer things, I did in this." "But how came you, who love men so well, to have so much to do with hurting them, Mr.Herder ?" "You cannot help it, Miss Elisabet'," said the naturalist. I never asked one, but I have been oblige to fight a good many. The students make themselves into clubs; and the way is, when two students of different clubs, get in a quarrel, their presidents must fight it out; -- so they meet people in duels that they have never spoken to, nor seen. |