Among our party were several rough characters; and it happened that one evening two of them fell out.  They were about to draw their knives, when Jacques seized each of them in his vice-like grasp, and, holding them at arm's-length, gradually lifted them off the ground.  There he kept them; mildly expostulating,--now smiling at one, and now at the other,--till they had consented to settle their dispute amicably; he then set them on their legs again, and made them shake hands.