I'll have a cigarette, if I may." "As you will.

What do you think of us now that you have found your way here ?" "Your business seems to be genuine enough, at all events," Norgate observed.
"Genuine?
Of course it is!" Selingman declared emphatically.

"Do you think I should be fool enough to be connected with a bogus affair?
My father and my grandfather before me were manufacturers of crockery.

I can assure you that I am a very energetic and a very successful business man.
If I have interests in greater things, those interests have developed naturally, side by side with my commercial success.

When I say that I am a German, that to me means more, much more, than if I were to declare myself a native of any other country in the world.