'Bide your time' is a good motto, and I recommend it
to you. You must feel that, however we may be at variance in our
opinions, Edward Armitage, my hand and my authority never can be used
against one to whom I am so indebted; and, feeling this, you compel
me, in the presence of others, to use a harshness and coldness toward
you, contrary, wholly contrary, to what, you may believe me when I say
it, I really feel for one who so nobly rescued my only child."
"I thank you, sir, for your advice, which I feel to be good, and for
your good opinion, which I value."
"And which I feel that you deserve; and you shall have, young as you
are, my confidence, which I know you will not abuse. I did know this
man who now lies dead before us, and I did also know that he was
concealed in this cottage; Major Ratcliffe was one of my earliest and
dearest friends, and until this unhappy civil war, there never was any
difference between us, and even afterward only in politics, and the
cause we each espoused. I knew, before I came down here as intendant,
where his place of concealment was, and have been most anxious for his
safety."
"Excuse me, Mr. Heatherstone, but each day I find more to make me like
you than I did the day before; at first I felt most inimical; now I
only wonder how you can be leagued with the party you now are.
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