A DUELLIST'S DEATHBED.

Kumara Times, Issue 468, 27 March 1878, Page 2

A DUELLIST'S DEATHBED.

Not long ago there died at the Hotel Dieu, Paris, Cadondal, an odd and quarrelsome character, whose anxiety to fight with auyone on any pretext or none was not more absurdly excessive than that described in "Romeo and Juliet." The reams of paper he consumed, in writing challenges, the thousands upon thousand of friends he sent '. to thousands of opponents, who would be bold enough to compute? As the,-. old man lay dying in the hospital a' \ priest was sent for to afford. him tie last consolations of religion. - Thao. worthy father did not spare to tell him * frankly in what condition he was, how* obnoxious to Heaven was the desperate . life he had led, and the necessity for his prompt and thorough repentence. i When the good, priest had left him „Oadonal beckoned feebly to a friend who was watching by his bedside ami,. whispered hoarsely:- " Take down that priest's address. He has uited language to me that I won't take tttga any man living. Jf_ * ;• this—l—willr-^aend—-a-^-conple—of—i.' 1 friends— 1 JiffiM. And before he onulJ ae&tettde the veteran duellist wa^jdead.,,» ■*^-fch