He goes himself, of course, sometimes, but I am quite sure that he doesn't enjoy it.

For days before he fidgets about and looks perfectly miserable, and when he comes back he always goes off for a long walk by himself.

I am perfectly certain that for some reason or other he hates going.

Yet he seems to have been everywhere, to know every one.
To hear him talk with Mrs.Handsell is like a new Arabian Nights to me." He nodded.
"Your uncle was a very distinguished man," he said.

"I was only at college then, but I remember what a fuss there was in all the papers when he resigned his seat." "What did they say was the reason ?" she asked, eagerly.
"A slight disagreement with Lord Rochester, and ill-health." "Absurd!" she exclaimed.