ALMOST A DUEL
A GIRL AKB A BOY
TEARS AND RAPIERS
LONDON, April 22,
An eighteen-year-old girl belonging to a well-known Hungarian family, challenged a. young man to a duel in extraordinary circumstances. Fencing at present is a fashionable craze in Hungary, and a young man who was present while two women were having a bout in a fencing school in Budapest made a remark which the pupils resented, one challenging him to a duel with swords. When the parties’ arrived on the duelling ground the youth, according to the regulations, stripped to the waist, but the girl refused to do likewise on the ground of propriety. Tiie youth's seconds therefore forbade the duel, whereupon the girl burst into tears of disappointment, and the adversaries parted unreconciled.
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Evening Star, Issue 19237, 30 April 1926, Page 5
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127ALMOST A DUEL Evening Star, Issue 19237, 30 April 1926, Page 5
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