"At the appointed time they went to the house of rendezvous, where
they had not waited long when the challenger appeared, in a new
pink satin waistcoat, which he had put on for the occasion, with
his sword under his arm. and his steward by him, leaving, in a
hackney-coach at some distance, a surgeon whom he had provided for
the care of his person. Thus equipped he advanced to his antagonist,
and desired him to choose his ground; upon which Lord B-- told him,
that if he must fall, it was not material which grave he should
tumble over.
"Our little hero, finding him so jocose and determined, turned to
Lord A--, and desired to speak with him, that he might disburden
his conscience before they should begin the work of death. They
accordingly went aside; and he gave him to understand, that his
motive for fighting, was Lord B--'s detaining his wife from him by
compulsion. The earl of A-- assured him, he was egregiously mistaken
in his conjecture; that his nephew used no force or undue influence
to keep me in his house; but it could not be expected that he would
turn me out of doors.
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