'I tell you that you are an insolent fellow, and I shall do as I please.'
'Are you a beggar, that you are so importunate? What do you want?'
'Do you remember saying in Forli that you would fight me when the opportunity presented itself. It has! And I am ready, for I have to thank you for my banishment from Castello.'
'When I offered to fight you, sir, I thought you were a gentleman. Now that I know your condition, I must decline.'
'You coward!'
'Surely it is not cowardice to refuse a duel with a person like yourself?'
By this time he was wild with rage; but I was cool and collected.
'Have you so much to boast?' he asked furiously.
'Cuckold!'