{"product_id":"2940013565005","title":"NO QUARTER!","description":"CHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA SWORD DUEL IN THE SADDLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He who is not a Republican must either have a bad head or a bad heart.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe speaker was a man of military mien, cavalry arm, as could be told by\u003cbr\u003ehis seat in the saddle--for he was on horseback.  Not in military\u003cbr\u003euniform, however, but dressed in a plain doublet of dark grey cloth,\u003cbr\u003ewith a broad Vandyke collar, high-crowned hat, buff boots reaching above\u003cbr\u003ethe knees, and turned over at the tips.  Nor did his wearing a sword\u003cbr\u003ecertify to his being a soldier.  In those days no one went without such\u003cbr\u003eweapon, especially when on a journey, as he was.  Thirty, or\u003cbr\u003ethereabouts, he looked a little older through his complexion being\u003cbr\u003esun-browned, as from foreign service or travel; which had also left its\u003cbr\u003etraces in his hair, a strand or two of silver beginning to show in a\u003cbr\u003e_chevelure_ otherwise coal-black.  His fine sweeping moustaches,\u003cbr\u003ehowever, were still free from this betrayer of middle age; while his\u003cbr\u003ewell-balanced figure, lithe and tersely set, bespoke the activity of a\u003cbr\u003eyet youthful manhood.  His features, oval and regular, were of a type\u003cbr\u003edenoting firmness; handsome, too, with their tint of bronze, which lent\u003cbr\u003einterest to them, lit up as they were by the flashing of eagle eyes.\u003cbr\u003eFor flash these did excitedly, almost angrily, as he so declared\u003cbr\u003ehimself.  By his speech he should be a Puritan, of extremest views; for\u003cbr\u003ethat he meant what he said was as evident from the emphasis given to his\u003cbr\u003ewords as from the expression on his face.  Still, his hair showed not\u003cbr\u003ethe close crop of the \"Roundhead;\" instead, fell down in curling\u003cbr\u003eluxuriance as affected by the \"Cavalier;\" while a plume of cock's\u003cbr\u003efeathers set jauntily on the side of his hat gave him more the air of\u003cbr\u003ethe latter than the former, in contradiction to the sentiment expressed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere could be no mistaking to which belonged the personage to whom he\u003cbr\u003eaddressed his speech.  Of the Cavalier class sure, as the effect it\u003cbr\u003eproduced upon him would have told of itself.  But the style of his\u003cbr\u003edress, air, bearing, everything proclaimed him one.  A youth not yet\u003cbr\u003eturned twenty, in garb of silken sheen; coat and trunks of rich yellow\u003cbr\u003esatin, Cordovan leather boots, with a wide fringe of lace around the\u003cbr\u003etops; spurs gilt or of gold, and a beaver over which waved a _panache_\u003cbr\u003eof ostrich feathers, upheld in a jewelled clasp.  His sword belt of silk\u003cbr\u003evelvet was elaborately embroidered, the needlework looking as though it\u003cbr\u003ecame from the fingers of a lady who had worked with a will and _con\u003cbr\u003eamore_; the gauntlets of his white gloves ornamented in a similar\u003cbr\u003efashion by the same.  Handsome he, too, but of manly beauty, quite\u003cbr\u003ediffering from that of the other, even to contrast.  With a bright,\u003cbr\u003eradiant complexion, and blonde hair falling in curls over his cheeks,\u003cbr\u003eyet unbearded, his features were of the type termed aristocratic; such\u003cbr\u003eas Endymion possessed, and Phidias would have been delighted to secure\u003cbr\u003efor a model.  Habitually and openly wearing a gentle expression, there\u003cbr\u003ewas, at the same time, one more latent, which bespoke intellectual\u003cbr\u003estrength and courage of no common kind.  Passionate anger, too, when\u003cbr\u003eoccasion called for it, seeming to say, \"Don't put upon me too much, or\u003cbr\u003eyou'll find your mistake.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust such a cast came over them as he listened to what the other said; a\u003cbr\u003edeclaration like defiance, flung in his teeth.  Although meant as the\u003cbr\u003eclincher of a political argument which had been for some time going on\u003cbr\u003ebetween them, the young Cavalier, taken aback by its boldness, and\u003cbr\u003edoubtful of having heard aright, turned sharply upon the other,\u003cbr\u003easking,--","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079586136304,"sku":"2940013565005","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013565005_p0.jpg?v=1763582810","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013565005","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}