"
"There you go!" exclaimed Ivanoff irritably, as he shrugged his
shoulders.
"If you come to think of it, duelling is absurd!" said Yourii.
"Of course it is!" chimed in Sina.
To his surprise, Yourii noticed that Sina seemed pleased to take
Sanine's part.
"At any rate, it's...." The right phrase failed him wherewith to
disparage Sanine.
"A brutal thing," suggested Riasantzeff.
Though Yourii thought Riasantzeff was little better than a brute to
himself, he was glad to hear the latter abuse Sanine to Sina when she
defended him. However, as she noticed Yourii's look of annoyance, she
said no more. Secretly, she was much pleased by Sanine's strength and
pluck, and was quite unwilling to accept Riasantzeff's denouncement of
duelling as just. Like Yourii, she did not consider that he was
qualified to lay down the law like that.
"Wonderfully civilized, certainly," sneered Ivanoff, "to shoot a man's
nose off, or run him through the body."
"Is a blow in the face any better?"
"I certainly think that it is. What harm can a fist do? A bruise is
soon healed.
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