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With his usual adroitness, however, M. Briand managed to convey the impression that perhaps the real contradicter is neither himself nor Signor Grandi but a third party too potent to mention.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was too chivalrous to abandon his contradicter in such an extremity.

From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules