I tried it by several ways.

I made a quarrel between him and Toole, but somehow it never came to a duel; and a worse one between him and Nutter, but that too failed to come to a fight.

It was to be, Sir, and my time had come.
What I long suspected arrived, and he told me in his own study he knew me, and wanted money.

The money didn't matter; of that I could spare abundance, though 'tis the nature of such a tax to swell to confiscation.

But the man who gets a sixpence from you on such terms is a tyrant and your master, and I can't brook slavery.
'I owed the fellow no ill-will; upon my honour, as a gentleman; I forgive him, as I hope he has forgiven me.