He knew exactly the rules of the combat.

Mr.Mildmay sat and heard him without once raising his hat from his brow, or speaking a word to his neighbour.

Men on both sides of the House said that Mr.Mildmay suffered terribly; but as Mr.Mildmay uttered no word of complaint to any one, and was quite ready to take Mr.Daubeny by the hand the next time they met in company, I do not know that any one was able to form a true idea of Mr.Mildmay's feelings.

Mr.Mildmay was an impassive man who rarely spoke of his own feelings, and no doubt sat with his hat low down over his eyes in order that no man might judge of them on that occasion by the impression on his features.

"If he could have left off half an hour earlier it would have been perfect as an attack," said Barrington Erle in criticising Mr.Daubeny's speech, "but he allowed himself to sink into comparative weakness, and the glory of it was over before the end."-- Then came the division.