"It was brave of you to refrain.

It must be a great deal easier for a gentleman to resent an insult than to endure it.

My cousin said as much to me yesterday evening.

He said he had always known that you were brave, but that he had not expected to find in you the moral courage to bear his words with equanimity.

He also said he was glad he did not have to meet you in a duel, because you were so greatly his superior with the sword.