CHAPTER XIX. THE PROPHECY REALIZED
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
Dawson’s Landing was comfortably finishing its season of dull repose and waiting patiently for the duel. Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. Sunday came, and Luigi insisted on having his challenge conveyed. Wilson carried it. Judge Driscoll declined to fight with an assassin—“that is,” he added significantly, “in the field of honor.”
Elsewhere, of course, he would be ready. Wilson tried to convince him that if he had been present himself when Angelo told about the homicide committed
