ily. They
tell the people below of the quarrel upstairs.

"Enough has been said," says Colonel Westbury. "Will your lordships meet
to-morrow morning?"

"Will my Lord Castlewood withdraw his words?" asks the Earl of Warwick.

"My Lord Castlewood will be ---- first," says Colonel Westbury.

"Then we have nothing for it. Take notice, gentlemen, there have been
outrageous words--reparation asked and refused."

"And refused," says my Lord Castlewood, putting on his hat. "Where shall
the meeting be? and when?"

"Since my lord refuses me satisfaction, which I deeply regret, there is no
time so good as now," says my Lord Mohun. "Let us have chairs and go to
Leicester Field."

"Are your lordship and I to have the honour of exchanging a pass or two?"
says Colonel Westbury, with a low bow to my Lord of Warwick and Holland.

"It is an honour for me," says my lord, with a profound congee, "to be
matched with a gentleman who has been at Mons and Namur."

"Will your reverence permit me to give you a lesson?" says the captain.

"Nay, nay, gentlemen, two on a side are plenty," says Harry's patron.
"Spare the boy, Captain Macartney," and he shook Harry's hand--for the last
time, save one, in his life.

At the bar of the tavern all the gentlemen stopped, and my lord viscount
said, laughing, to the barwoman, that those cards set people sadly
a-quarrelling; but that the dispute was over now, and the parties were all
going away to my Lord Mohun's house, in Bow Street, to drink a bottle more
before going to bed.

A half-dozen of chairs were now called, and the six gentlemen stepping
into them, the word was privately given to the chairmen to go to Leicester
Field, where the gentlemen were set down opposite the "Standard" Tavern.
It was midnight, and the town was abed by this time, and only a few lights
in the windows of the houses; but the night was bright enough for the
unhappy purpose which the disputants came about; and so all six entered
into that fatal square, the chairmen standing without the railing and
keeping the gate, lest any persons should disturb the meeting.

All that happened there hath been matter of public notoriety, and is
recorded, for warning to lawless men, in the annals of our country. After
being engaged for not more than a couple of minutes, as Harry Esmond
thought (though being occupied at the time with his own adversary's point,
which was active, he may not have taken a good note of time), a cry from
th