I Have Submitted to Your Notions of Honor Long Enough

Tags: dueling, historical fiction, honor

Armand D’Hubert:

You have kept me at your beck and call for fifteen years. I shall never again do what you demand of me. By every rule of single combat, from this moment your life belongs to me. Is that not correct?

Then I shall simply declare you dead. In all of your dealings with me, you’ll do me the courtesy to conduct yourself as a dead man.

I have submitted to your notions of honor long enough. You will now submit to mine.

— “The Duellists” (1977)

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