A Race of Barbarians
In the midst of our civilization, down in our slums and labor-ghettos, we had bred a race of barbarians, of savages; and now, in the time of our calamity, they turned upon us like the wild beasts they were and destroyed us. And they destroyed themselves as well.
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Context: The old man remembers the looting and violence in the streets of San Francisco as the plague took hold.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter IV