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`` Go ? '' he answered . `` Do you mean now ? '' `` Ay , now , or before noon ! '' Uncle Ulick retorted . `` More by token , '' he continued with bitterness , `` it 's not that you might go on the instant that I 've brought you out of our own house as if we were a couple of rapparees or horse-thieves , but that you might hear it from me who wish you well , and would warn you not to say nay -- instead of from those who may be 'll not put it so kindly , nor be so wishful for you to be taking the warning they give . '' `` Is it Flavia you 're meaning ? ''