I told him. I'm going to take a liberty with you. I said I should be delighted to do it. I thanked him for his friendship and caution, and our discourse proceeded in a low tone, while I toasted the Aged's sausage and he buttered the crumb of the Aged's roll. We are in our private and personal capacities, and we have been engaged in a confidential transaction before today.
Official sentiments are one thing.
I cordially assented. I was so very nervous, that I had already lighted the Aged's sausage like a torch, and been obliged to blow it out. I heard it, as I have in my time heard other curious things in the same place. I don't tell it you on information received. He took the toasting-fork and sausage from me as he spoke, and set forth the Aged's breakfast neatly on a little tray.