"But I am touched by your humanity." Another shake.

"Believe me, I am profoundly aware of having been an object of it." Final shake of the hand.

All this meant that Heyst understood in a proper sense the little Sissie's periodic appearance in sight of his hermitage.
"He's a genuine gentleman," Davidson said to us.

"I was really sorry when he went ashore." We asked him where he had left Heyst.
"Why, in Sourabaya--where else ?" The Tesmans had their principal counting-house in Sourabaya.

There had long existed a connection between Heyst and the Tesmans.