since

If not, why, there would be no promotion; and since you assure me that the cargo——”

I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.

No, for I think he never liked me since the day when I was silly enough, after a little quarrel we had, to propose to him to stop for ten minutes at the island of Monte Cristo to settle the dispute—a proposition which I was wrong to suggest, and he quite right to refuse.

Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”