Well, he said--But I don't know whether I ought to tell you, Charlie." "Certainly you ought not, Ciceley.

If you heard what you were not meant to hear, you ought never to say a word about it to anyone." "But it concerns you and Sir Marmaduke." "I cannot help that," he said stoutly.

"People often say things of each other, in private, especially if they are out of temper, that they don't quite mean, and it would make terrible mischief if such things were repeated.

Whatever your father said, I do not want to hear it, and it would be very wrong of you to repeat it." "I am not going to repeat it, Charlie.

I only want to say that I do not think my father and yours are very friendly together, which is natural, when my father is all for King William, and your father for King James.