DUELLING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 763, 1 December 1876, Page 3

DUELLING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

At Cassalo, duiing a farowoll toptoSohlation of Hamlet by Rossi, the Court society chattered so loudly as to interfere with the performance. The eminent tragedian came to a full stop in the middle of a sentence, and, turning towards a front box from which the greatest noise came, ho bowed, and said tranquilly, “ I shall hush as long as you do not hush." The public applauded, the interruption ceased, and the play wont on, but Rossi was mot at the door by one of the young gentlemen, who felt called upon to aik for satisfaction- Rossi mado a long face, for ho was expected on the morrow at Milan. So ho explained his situation to his blood-thirsty adversary, and bogged that, in order to got through with their little affair as spooddy as possible, they should go to his (Rossi’s) rooms at tho hotel and quietly shoot at ono another there. The proposition having been accepted, they wont to Rossi’s rooms, and had just placed themselves at either end of tho room in order to exchange three shots, when the inn-keeper, over-anxious as to his guest’s health and hours, knocked at tho door—which he found locked—and asked in an anxious voice if monsieur was ill, as his light burned so unusually late. '“No,” replied Rossi, “I am going to bed, thanks. Good night.” “You are deceiving me,” persisted his anxious keeper, perhaps enlightened as to the scene in the theatre. “You are certainly ill.” “Go to bed,” returned Rossi; “ I am putting out my lightand in a lower tone he added to his antagonist, “ This is the only way out of it. Blow out the candles.” “What 1 Are we to light with pistols in the dark ?” “ Not quite ;We will each smoke a cigarette, and that will serve to guide our aim.” “All right.” And so the famous duel was fought, in which Rossi had the good luck to wound his adversary slightly.