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"Be secret! " and he kept his stern eye fixed upon him, as the coach began to move.
"Be secret! " repeated the apothecary. "I know not any secret that he has confided to me thus far, and as for his nonsense (as I will be bold to style it now he is gone) about a medicine of long life, it is a thing I forget in spite of myself, so very empty and trashy it is. I wonder, by the by, that it never came into my head to give the Colonel a dose of the cordial whereof I partook last night. I have no faith that it is a valuable medicine -- little or none -- and yet there has been an unwonted briskness in me all the morning."