My Uncle Benjamin a Humorous Satirical And Philosophical Novel
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De Pont-Cassd with the docility of a dog under the scalpel, or shall I decline the honor that he condescends to do me? It is for M. De Pont-Casse"s interest that I should go upon crutches ; that I know ; but I do not exactly see why I should give him that pleasure. I hold very little to Mile. Minxit, although she is decorated with a dowry of one hundred thousand francs ; but I hold very much to the symmetry of my person, and I flatter myself that I am sufficiently good-looking to keep this pret...ension from seeming ridiculous. You say, a man challenged to a duel must fight; but where do you find that, if you please? Is it in the Pandects, in Charlemagne's Capitularies, in the commandments of God, or in those of the Church? And in the first place, M. De Poiit- Cassd, between you and me is the match really equal ? You are a musketeer and I am a doctor ; you are an artist in the matter of fencing, and I scarcely know how to handle anything but the bistoury or the lancet ; you, it seems, feel no more scruple in depriving a man of his limb than in tearing a wing from a fly, whereas I have a horror of blood, and especially of arterial blood.
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