"I should not be doing my duty, Count," he said in timid tones, "and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth.

I think there is no sufficient ground for this affair, or for blood to be shed over it....

You were not right, not quite in the right, you were impetuous..." "Oh yes, it is horribly stupid," said Pierre.