I now demand redress--the redress of a gentleman.

You know the custom of the country, and regard your own character, I should think, too highly to refuse me satisfaction.

You have pistols, and here are rifles and dirks.

Take your choice." The youth looked upon him with ineffable scorn as he replied-- "You mistake me, sirrah, if you think I can notice your call with anything but contempt." "What! will you not fight--not fight?
not back your words ?" "Not with you!" was the calm reply.
"You refuse me satisfaction, after insulting me!" "I always took him for a poor chicken, from the first time I set eyes on him," said one of the spectators.
"Yes, I didn't think much of him, when he refused to join us," was the remark of another.
"This comes of so much crowing; Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better," went on a third, and each man had his remark upon Colleton's seeming timidity.

Scorn and indignation were in all faces around him; and Forrester, at length awakened from his stupor by the tide of fierce comment setting in upon his friend from all quarters, now thought it time to interfere.
"Come, 'squire, how's this?
Don't give way--give him satisfaction, as he calls it, and send the lead into his gizzard.