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carnaby.[Compressing his thin lips.]Do you care for my daughter?

lord john.I could... at a pinch.

carnaby.Now, my lord, you are insolent.

lord john.Is this when we quarrel?

carnaby.I think I'll challenge you.

lord john.That will look well.

carnaby.You'll value that kiss when you've paid for it. Kindly choose Tatton as your second. I want his tongue to wag both ways.

lord john.I was forgetting how it all began.

carnaby.George will serve me... protesting. His principles are vile, but he has the education of a gentleman. Swords or...? Swords. And at noon shall we say? There's shade behind a certain barn, midway between this and Tatton's.

lord john.[Not taking him seriously yet.]What if we both die horridly?

carnaby.You are at liberty to make me a written apology.

lord john.A joke's a joke.

carnaby deliberately strikes him in the face with the twist of bass.

lord john.That's enough.

carnaby.[In explanatory apology.]My friend, you are so obtuse. Abud!

lord john.Mr. Leete, are you serious?

carnaby.Perfectly serious. Let's go to bed. Abud, you can get to your work.