isn't it byronic

I did not say that, mademoiselle. No more than I would say that I had no part in the incident where Leander stabbed me in the side. Why, I had lost my temper, and was berating him, you see. And yet, for all that I did in part instigate, my general feeling is that the man's uncommonly strong reaction, the leap to violence which left me fearful for my own life, did tell me something about his character.