The Duel of Isabella de Carazzi and Diambra de Pottinella by Jusepe De Ribera, 1636

From The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope:

Was it not his duty, as a man, to tell everything to herself? To speak to her thus: – ‘I am told that your life with your last husband was, to say the least of it, eccentric; that you even fought a duel with him. I could not marry a woman who had fought a duel, – certainly not a woman who had fought with her own husband. I am told also that you shot another gentleman in Oregon. It may well be that the gentleman deserved to be shot; but there is something in the deed so repulsive to me, – no doubt irrationally, – that, on that score also, I must decline to marry you. I am told also that [your last husband] has been seen alive quite lately. I had understood from you that he is dead. No doubt you may have been deceived. But as I should not have engaged myself to you had I known the truth, so now I consider myself justified in absolving myself from an engagement which was based on a misconception.