My grandson found him engaged in offering a gross insult to a young lady in the garden of my house.
He did what I should have done had I so found him--he knocked him down.

They fought, and your son was worsted.

I think, sir, that for the credit of your house you had best be quiet over the matter.
"Hush, sir," he went on sternly, seeing that the baronet was about to answer furiously.

"I am an old man, but I will put up with bluster from no man." Colonel Holliday's repute as a swordsman was well known, and Sir William Brownlow swallowed his passion in silence.

A door was taken off its hinges, and the insensible young man was carried into the house.