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`` Pardon me , sir , '' replied Charles , `` my safety recommends that I remain rather private at present . '' `` Enough said , '' Wildrake observed ; `` poor cavaliers must not stand on ceremony . I see , sir , you understand cutter 's law -- when one tall fellow has coin , another must not be thirsty . I wish you , sir , a continuance of health and happiness until to-morrow , at the King 's Oak , at six o'clock . '' `` Farewell , sir , '' said the King , and added , as Wildrake went down the stair whistling , `` Hey for cavaliers , '' to which air his long rapier , jarring against the steps and banisters , bore no unsuitable burden -- `` Farewell , thou too just emblem of the state , to which war , and defeat , and despair , have reduced many a gallant gentleman . '' During the rest of the day , there occurred nothing peculiarly deserving of notice . Alice sedulously avoided showing towards the disguised Prince any degree of estrangement or shyness , which could be discovered by her father , or by any one else .