I'm as close as the grave over a friend's secrets." "My dear cousin," I said, "I do not know what business you mean.

Was not my letter explicit enough?
I am come to live here as an English gentleman.

What other business should I have ?" He winked again at me.
"Yes, yes," he said.

"And now having done your duty to your discretion, do it to your friendship for me too.

I know very well that a man who comes from a Roman monastery, with letters from the French ambassador, does not come for nothing.