He lowered his voice to the least attenuation of a whisper.
'Here, sir,' said he, 'is to the Great Man.

I think you take me?
No ?' He leaned forward till our noses touched.

'Here is to the Emperor!' said he.
I was extremely embarrassed, and, in spite of the creature's innocent appearance, more than half alarmed.

I thought him too ingenious, and, indeed, too daring for a spy.

Yet if he were honest he must be a man of extraordinary indiscretion, and therefore very unfit to be encouraged by an escaped prisoner.