"You know, sir, how greatly I detest anything like concealment."
"Your royal highness will excuse me, but it suits me to have certain concealments," said Murphy, bluntly.
"If I descend to familiarity with you, sir, it is on condition that you, at least, act with entire frankness towards me."
It is impossible to describe the extreme hauteur which marked the countenance of Rodolph as he uttered these words.
"I am fifty years of age, I am a gentleman, and your royal highness should not address me in such a tone."
"Be silent!"
"My lord!"
"Be silent! I say."
"Your royal highness does wrong in compelling a man of honour and feeling to recall the services he has rendered to you," said the squire, in a calm tone.
"Have I not repaid those services in a thousand ways?"