Excerpt from The Duel Can't you recognise your own commander, your own captain? Another step and you are a dead man, shouted the Tartar, in a furious rage. In his bloodshot eyes one could discern not only wrath and murder, but a good deal of fear and perplexity, and he made nervous thrusts with his bayonet in different directions, just as if he were protecting himself against imaginary foes. Round about him, but at a respectful distance, a crowd of soldiers flocked together, accepting with joy and gratitude this interesting little interlude in their insufferable, soul killing drill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.