I must know this man's name--must know all that you have heard of him and of the baron." "I have heard nothing," replied the trader, doggedly, "if you wish to examine me as they do in the courts of law.

A word that is spoken flies through the air like a scent; one perceives it, another does not.

I can not tell you the words I have heard, and I will not tell them for much money.

What I say is meant for your ear alone.

To you I say that two men have sat together, not one, but many evenings--not one, but many years; and they have whispered in the balcony of our inn, under which the water runs; and the water whispered below them, and they whispered above the water.