No man is insensible to a compliment which is obviously spontaneous.
"I spent a night once at your house, Mr.White," he said.

"I was going to Frankfort on horseback.

I was overtaken at dusk by a storm and I reached your place just in time.

I remember that I slept on a mighty soft feather bed, and ate a splendid breakfast in the morning." Malachi White was not insensible to compliments either.

He smiled, and the smile which merely showed his middle front teeth at first, gradually broadened until it showed all of them.