I'm--with all my other functions--an agent for repatriation.

I want to re-people our stricken country.

What will become of it else?
I want to discourage others." The ordered English garden, in the freshness of the day, was delightful to Strether, who liked the sound, under his feet, of the tight fine gravel, packed with the chronic damp, and who had the idlest eye for the deep smoothness of turf and the clean curves of paths.
"Other people ?" "Other countries.

Other people--yes.

I want to encourage our own." Strether wondered.