human
Do you admit, sir, that you have defamed me?
gpt
I defame nobody,
human
Have you not disseminated statements that my name is stolen?
gpt
I have said that the noble designation of Répentigny did not belong to you--that its rightful owners are my uncle the Marquis of Répentigny, now in Paris, and his family.
human
Did you not know----
gpt
Stay, sir. I have also asserted that you are an impostor, the son of a tradesman of Canada, formerly a private soldier of the Marquis de Lotbinière, and that you have not the slightest claim to consort with gentlemen, still less to belong to the Bodyguard, and less again to become an officer.
human
Liar! liar! liar! Léry, it is _you_ who are the impostor! You are afraid of those who can tell the truth about you, but I did not conceive that you would carry our colonial jealousies so far as this. Do you persist or do you retract?
gpt
The scene becomes disagreeable,
human
It is colonial jealousy, of course, said others.
gpt
What have we to do with it?
human
I demand satisfaction,
gpt
The laws of honour, said he,
human
Shame!
gpt
You _shall_ meet me! You _must_ meet me! Besides a slanderer, you are a coward. Your company, whom you disgrace, have honour enough to make you meet me,
human
Accept! accept! accept!
gpt
You ask me to dishonour myself?--to cross swords with an animal?
human
Shame! shame!
gpt
Gentlemen of the Bodyguard, said Collinot,
human
I must remind you where you are.