( it was considered highly well bred of him to waive all question of his rank ) with a nobleman , well known in the society of the day , not only for his own merits , but as the husband of a very beautiful wife .
In that duelduelPrince Rudolf received a severe woundwound, and , recovering therefrom , was adroitly smuggledsmuggleoff by the Ruritanian ambassador , who had found him a pretty handful .
The nobleman was not wounded in the duelduel; but the morning being raw and damp on the occasion of the meeting , he contracted a severe chillchill, and , failing to throw it off , he dieddiesome six months after the departuredepartureof Prince Rudolf , without having found leisure to adjust his relations with his wife -- who , after another two months , boreborean heir to the title and estates of the family of Burlesdon .