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At first a kind of -- shall we say it? -- savage joy and exultation swelled up in the breast of Goring at the prospect of being face to face with Cadbury again, and already in fancy he was covering with his pistol the spectrum of the peer's thick-set, pudgy person, for he had at first serious doubts -- though they were both on the Continent -- that the latter would accept his challenge.
'Well, I have faced much in my short time, and figured in many things; but I never thought to do so in such an old-fashioned affair as a duel! ' he said, with a grim smile, to his new friend Gabion.