Perhaps you are too susceptible." Mr Verloc intimated in a throaty, veiled murmur that he was no longer young.
"Oh! That's a failing which age does not cure," Mr Vladimir remarked, with sinister familiarity.

"But no! You are too fat for that.

You could not have come to look like this if you had been at all susceptible.
I'll tell you what I think is the matter: you are a lazy fellow.

How long have you been drawing pay from this Embassy ?" "Eleven years," was the answer, after a moment of sulky hesitation.
"I've been charged with several missions to London while His Excellency Baron Stott-Wartenheim was still Ambassador in Paris.

Then by his Excellency's instructions I settled down in London.