All these years have ye not enjoyed my revenues , and led my men ? Have ye not still my marriage ? I wot not what it may be worth -- it is worth something . Pardon me again ; but if ye were base enough to slay a man under trust , here were , perhaps , reasons enough to move you to the lesser baseness . '' `` When I was lad of your years , '' returned Sir Daniel , sternly , `` my mind had not so turned upon suspicions . And Sir Oliver here , '' he added , `` why should he , a priest , be guilty of this act ? '' `` Nay , Sir Daniel , '' said Dick , `` but where the master biddeth there will the dog go . It is well known this priest is but your instrument . I speak very freely ; the time is not for courtesies . Even as I speak , so would I be answered . And answer get I none ! Ye but put more questions . I rede ye be ware , Sir Daniel ; for in this way ye will but nourish and not satisfy my doubts . '' `` I will answer you fairly , Master Richard , '' said the knight . `` Were I to pretend ye have not stirred my wrath , I were no honest man . But I will be just even in anger . Come to me with these words when y ' are grown and come to man 's estate , and I am no longer your guardian , and so helpless to resent them . Come to me then , and I will answer you as ye merit , with a buffet in the mouth . Till then ye have two courses : either swallow me down these insults , keep a silent tongue , and fight in the meanwhile for the man that fed and fought for your infancy ; or else -- the door standeth open , the woods are full of mine enemies -- go . '' The spirit with which these words were uttered , the looks with which they were accompanied , staggered Dick ; and yet he could not but observe that he had got no answer .
`` I desire nothing more earnestly , Sir XXXXX , than to believe you , '' he replied .
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