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-"I had a small pocket pistol. I had procured it while still a boy, at that droll age when the stories of duels and highwaymen begin to delight one, and when one imagines oneself nobly standing fire at some future day, in a duel.
-"There were a couple of old bullets in the bag which contained the pistol, and powder enough in an old flask for two or three charges.