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[Galbreth <cop...@in...>]

Nce, and never returned from the field before with so much as a scratch,
or without leaving my adversary stretched lifeless on the ground, or
wounded and bleeding in the arms of his friends." "But you must remember
that the most favoured and the bravest of mortals have their unlucky
days, Vallombreuse," answered the chevalier sententiously, "and Dame
Fortune does not ALWAYS smile, even upon her prime favourites. Until now
you have never had to complain of her frowns, for you have been her
pampered darling all your life long." "Isn't it too disgraceful,"
continued Vallombreuse, growing more and more heated, "that this
ridiculous buffoon--this grotesque country clown--who takes such
abominable drubbings on the stage, and has never in his life known what
it was to associate with gentlemen, should have managed to get the best
of the Duke of Vallombreuse, hitherto by common accord pronounced
invincible? He must be a professional prize-fighter, disguised as a
strolling mountebank." "There can be no doubt about his real rank," said
Vidalinc, "for the Marquis de Bruyeres guarantees it; but I must confess
that his unequalled performance to-day filled me with astonishment; it
was simply marvellous. Neither Girolamo