When my father interrupted the conversation, to beg the old man to come down into the town and lunch with us, he replied effusively, " I thank you, I thank you, " but he seemed undecided.
" Thank you so very much, " I said at last, effusively, as I put the pipe in my pocket, not without a qualm of doubt as to whether I shouldn't find myself before a magistrate presently.
Cecil wondered at himself. Why, on this day of all others, was he so hopelessly contrary? He tried to get right by inquiring effusively after Mr. Beebe's mother, an old lady for whom he had no particular regard.