[4] "_For quarter was not granted on either side_."--I repeat, as all along and necessarily I have repeated, that which orally I was told at the time, or which subsequently I have read in published accounts. But the reader is aware by this time of my steadfast conviction, that more easily might a camel go through the eye of a needle, than a reporter, fresh from a campaign blazing with partisanship, and that partisanship representing ancient and hereditary feuds, could by possibility cleanse himself from the _virus_ of such a prejudice. [5] The same jest was applied to Mr. Pitt's brother. When first lord of the Admiralty, people calling on him as late as even 10 or 11, P.M., were told that his lordship was riding in the park. On this account, partly, but more pointedly with a malicious reference to the contrast between his languor and the fiery activity of his father, the first earl, he was jocularly called, _the late Lord Chatham_. [6] Perhaps also _not_. Possibly enough there may be no call for any such _exceptional_ solution; for, after all, there may be nothing to solve--no _dignus vindice nodus_. As regards the sudden interchange of characters on the scaffold,--the constitutionally brave man all at once becoming timid, and the timid man becoming brave,--it must be remembered, that the particular sort of courage applicable to duelling, when the danger is much more of a fugitive and momentary order than that which invests a battle lasting for hours, depends almost entirely upon a man's _confidence in his own luck_--a peculiarity of mind which exists altogether apart from native resources of courage, whether moral or physical: usually this mode of courage is but a transformed expression for a sanguine temperament. A man who is habitually depressed by a constitutional taint of despondency may carry into a duel a sublime principle of calm, self-sacrificing courage, as being possibly utterly without hope--a courage, therefore, which has to fight with internal resistance, to which there may be nothing corresponding in a cheerful temperament.