Within a month after his letting out of prison he was killed in a duello with the husband of a lady he had took by force in the highway. |
Concerning the cause of this duello, I may well say teterrima causa. |
The implication reminded Smollett of a narrow escape from a duello at Ghent in 1749 with a Frenchman. |
This, at the time, I knew not, being ignorant of the laws of the duello. |
I drew myself up before him, and I bowed as I have done in the duello. |
Other quarrels followed the dignified procedure of the duello. |