That tickled him down to the keel.

I said you'd be a first-class helper to me in this bank, that I heard you knew something about banking--" "George!" "It's all right.

I only mentioned that I heard rumors that you were in a city bank somewhere at one time.

He didn't ask any more and I shouldn't have told him if he had.

But the idea pleased him, I could see that.
'Why don't you try to get him ?' says he.