He held good Master Feltham's doctrine about reproofs.

'A man,' says he, 'had better be convinced in private than be made guilty by a proclamation.

Open rebukes are for Magistrates, and Courts of Justice! for Stelled Chambers and for Scarlets, in the thronged Hall Private are for friends; where all the witnesses of the offender's blushes are blinde and deaf and dumb.

We should do by them as Joseph thought to have done by Mary, seeke to cover blemishes with secrecy.

Public reproofe is like striking of a Deere in the Herd; it not only wounds him to the loss of enabling blood, but betrays him to the Hound, his Enemy, and makes him by his fellows be pusht out of company.' So on due invitation from within, the good parson entered, and the handsome captain in all his splendours--when you saw him after a little absence 'twas always with a sort of admiring surprise--you had forgot how _very_ handsome he was--this handsome slender fellow, with his dark face and large, unfathomable violet eyes, so wild and wicked, and yet so soft, stood up surprised, with a look of welcome quickly clouded and crossed by a gleam of defiance.
They bowed, and shook hands, however, and bowed again, and each was the other's 'servant;' and being seated, they talked _de generalibus_; for the good parson would not come like an executioner and take his prisoner by the throat, but altogether in the spirit of the shepherd, content to walk a long way about, and wait till he came up with the truant, and entreating him kindly, not dragging or beating him back to the flock, but leading and carrying by turns, and so awaiting his opportunity.