Whatever you gleaned, or heard, or saw, when you served me, the world knows and magnifies already.

You could tell it nothing that would surprise it, unless, indeed, it redounded to my credit or honour, and then it would scout you for a liar.

And yet I don't find business slack, or clients scrupulous.

Quite the contrary.

I am reviled or threatened every day by one man or another,' said Ralph; 'but things roll on just the same, and I don't grow poorer either.' 'I neither revile nor threaten,' rejoined the man.