The Count of Monte Cristo

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"Having wished you all to witness the challenge, he now wishes you to be
present at the combat."

"Exactly so," said the young men; "you have probably guessed right."

"But, after all these arrangements, he does not come himself," said
Chateau-Renaud. "Albert is ten minutes after time."

"There he comes," said Beauchamp, "on horseback, at full gallop,
followed by a servant."

"How imprudent," said Chateau-Renaud, "to come on horseback to fight a
duel with pistols, after all the instructions I had given him."

"And besides," said Beauchamp, "with a collar above his cravat, an
open coat and white waistcoat! Why has he not painted a spot upon his
heart?--it would have been more simple." Meanwhile Albert had arrived