It has been chafing me a little in one or two tender places." "I hope you'll get on over there," said the great man kindly, extending his hand, soft to the touch, but broad and powerful like the hand of a glorified farmer.

The Assistant Commissioner shook it, and withdrew.
In the outer room Toodles, who had been waiting perched on the edge of a table, advanced to meet him, subduing his natural buoyancy.
"Well?
Satisfactory ?" he asked, with airy importance.
"Perfectly.

You've earned my undying gratitude," answered the Assistant Commissioner, whose long face looked wooden in contrast with the peculiar character of the other's gravity, which seemed perpetually ready to break into ripples and chuckles.
"That's all right.

But seriously, you can't imagine how irritated he is by the attacks on his Bill for the Nationalisation of Fisheries.

They call it the beginning of social revolution.