But I think the underlings showed good bread-and-butter judgment.

If their superiors had carved each other well, the public would have asked, Where were the police?
and their places would have been endangered; but custom does not require them to be around where mere unofficial citizens are explaining a thing with sabres.
There was another duel--a double duel--going on in the immediate neighborhood at the time, and in this case the police obeyed custom and did not disturb it.

Their bread and butter was not at stake there.

In this duel a physician fought a couple of surgeons, and wounded both--one of them lightly, the other seriously.

An undertaker wanted to keep people from interfering, but that was quite natural again.
Selecting at random from my record, I next find a duel at Tarnopol between military men.