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"_Duelling, in this country at least, is no longer legal, and we believe that war, which has been aptly styled international duelling, is alike doomed. It is certain that the time must assuredly come (for is not this the darkness before the dawn?), and it will be probably sooner than we can conceive, when there will be a tremendous upheaval and revulsion of feeling with regard to it._" / --J. J. Green.
For some little time Gabriel lay back in perfect silence against the grassy bank, and, spite of the acute pain he was in, he nevertheless felt ready to echo the children's chorus which floated to them from beneath the apple trees--_For it is now a holiday_.