The latter declined to accept it on the ground that he _was_ a banker and not a fighting man, and that his business position would have been materially injured by his fighting a duel.

The Irishman might have made the most of this triumph, such as it was.

But he was not content with doing so, and lost none of the opportunities, which the social habits of such a place daily afforded him, for insulting and outraging his enemy.

And he was continually boasting to his friends that before the end of the season he would compel him to come out and be shot at.
And before the end of the season came, his persistent efforts were crowned with success.

Plowden finding his life altogether intolerable under the harrow of the bully's insolence, at length one day challenged _him_.