But I do assure you that it is a satisfaction to me to receive you in my humble home.

And that is what I would not say to everybody.' Ineffable loftiness on Mr.Sapsea's part accompanies these words, as leaving the sentence to be understood: 'You will not easily believe that your society can be a satisfaction to a man like myself; nevertheless, it is.' 'I have for some time desired to know you, Mr.Sapsea.' 'And I, sir, have long known you by reputation as a man of taste.

Let me fill your glass.

I will give you, sir,' says Mr.Sapsea, filling his own: 'When the French come over, May we meet them at Dover!' This was a patriotic toast in Mr.Sapsea's infancy, and he is therefore fully convinced of its being appropriate to any subsequent era.
'You can scarcely be ignorant, Mr.Sapsea,' observes Jasper, watching the auctioneer with a smile as the latter stretches out his legs before the fire, 'that you know the world.' 'Well, sir,' is the chuckling reply, 'I think I know something of it; something of it.' 'Your reputation for that knowledge has always interested and surprised me, and made me wish to know you.

For Cloisterham is a little place.
Cooped up in it myself, I know nothing beyond it, and feel it to be a very little place.' 'If I have not gone to foreign countries, young man,' Mr.Sapsea begins, and then stops:--'You will excuse me calling you young man, Mr.Jasper?
You are much my junior.' 'By all means.' 'If I have not gone to foreign countries, young man, foreign countries have come to me.