"Come, none of your nonsense. I tell you the head clerk made me a promise to speak of it to no one."
"Yes; but he did not say that you should not tell it to every one?"
"It shall not go out of the office. Go on."
"He is dying with desire to tell us the secret."
"Well! the governor is about selling his notary's business. At this present moment, perhaps, it is done."
"Nonsense!"
"Here is news!"
"Let us see, without charge, who charges himself with the charge which he discharges?"
"Tush! how insupportable Chalamel is with his riddles."
"Do you think I know to whom he sells it?"