human
Be sure now you say nothing about it; I wouldn't have it repeated for all the world. Poor Peter need not have been alarmed, for I knew the thing long before he did. I have been alone with him in a large room, and he would take me up one corner to whisper something in my ears. He has a way sometimes of ending his whispering revelations with a loud,
gpt
Do not you think so? then whisper again, and then aloud,
human
But you know that person, then whisper again. The thing would be well enough if Peter whispered to keep the folly of what he says among friends; but, alas! he does it to preserve the importance of his own thoughts. It is a wonderful thing that, although he is never heard to talk about things in nature, and never seen with a book in his hand, yet he can whisper something like knowledge of what has and of what now passes in the world, which one would think he learned from some familiar spirit that did not think him worthy to receive the whole story. But the truth is, he deals only in half accounts of what he would entertain you with. A help to his discourse is,
gpt
That the town says, and people begin to talk very freely, and he had it from persons too considerable to be named, what he will tell you when things are riper.