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Updated: May 7, 2025

As for my mother, she saw nothing at all in it, to make the least bustle about but Susannah was sufficient by herself for all the ends and purposes you could possibly have, in exporting a family secret; for she instantly imparted it by signs to Jonathan and Jonathan by tokens to the cook as she was basting a loin of mutton; the cook sold it with some kitchen-fat to the postillion for a groat, who truck'd it with the dairy maid for something of about the same value and though whisper'd in the hay-loft, Fame caught the notes with her brazen trumpet, and sounded them upon the house-top In a word, not an old woman in the village or five miles round, who did not understand the difficulties of my uncle Toby's siege, and what were the secret articles which had delayed the surrender.

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman