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The Point Of Honor
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Title: The Point Of Honor A Military Tale
Author: Joseph Conrad
Illustrator: Dan Sayre Groesbeck
Release Date: January 29, 2006 [EBook #17620]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE POINT OF HONOR
BY
A MILITARY TALE
BY
JOSEPH CONRAD
ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN SAYRE GROESBECK
NEW YORK
THE MCCLURE COMPANY
MCMVIII
Copyright, 1908, by The McClure Company
Copyright, 1907, 1908, by Joseph Conrad
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"You will fight no more duels now" Frontispiece
"Bowing before a sylph-like form reclining on a couch"
"The angry clash of arms filled that prim garden"
"You take the nearest brute, Colonel D'Hubert"
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Napoleon the First, whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his army. The great military emperor was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition.
Nevertheless, a story of duelling which became a legend in the army runs through the epic of imperial wars. To the surprise and admiration of their fellows, two officers, like insane artists trying to gild refined gold or paint the