And when I was living in Vienna, thirty-four years after my ineffectual duel, my interest in that kind of incident was still strong; and I find here among my Autobiographical manuscripts of that day a chapter which I began concerning it, but did not finish.

I wanted to finish it, but held it open in the hope that the Italian ambassador, M.
Nigra, would find time to furnish me the _full_ history of Senor Cavalotti's adventures in that line.

But he was a busy man; there was always an interruption before he could get well started; so my hope was never fulfilled.

The following is the unfinished chapter: [Sidenote: (1898.)] As concerns duelling.

This pastime is as common in Austria to-day as it is in France.