This imitation of the Greeks
had all the desired effect upon the painter, who seeing the physician
running towards him like a fury, with a pistol in his right hand,
which was extended, and hearing the dreadful yell he uttered, and
the outlandish words he pronounced, was seized with a universal
palsy of his limbs. He would have dropped down upon the ground, had
not Pipes supported and encouraged him to stand upon his defence.
The doctor, contrary to his expectation, finding that he had not
flinched from the spot, though he had now performed one half of
his career, put in practice his last effort, by firing his pistol,
the noise of which no sooner reached the ears of the affrighted
painter, than he recommended his soul to God, and roared for mercy
with great vociferation.
The republican, overjoyed at this exclamation, commanded him to
yield, and surrender his arms, on pain of immediate death; upon
which he threw away his pistols and sword, in spite of all the
admonitions and even threats of his second, who left him to his
fate, and went up to his master, stopping his nose with signs of
loathing and abhorrence.
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