“Why,” I answered, “my subject is exhausted, I have told you all I know, or at any rate all that I think worth knowing.”
notes
1
Lafaugère, Traité sur les Armes.
2
Académie de l’Espée, by Gerard Thibault, Antwerp, 1628.
3
Dares the nimbler-footed, in manhood’s confident ease;
Huge Entellus of limb and of weight, – but his tardier knees
Totter, and troubled breath convulses his towering frame.
Virgil, Aeneid V. Bowen.