Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

"Our best respects to you, Buddenbrook -- I repeat, our best respects! " Herr Köppen's powerful voice drowned the general conversation as the maidservant, in her heavy striped petticoat, her fat arms bare and a little white cap on the back of her head, passed the cabbage soup and toast, assisted by Mamsell Jungmann and the Frau Consul's maid from upstairs. The guests began to use their soupspoons.

"Such plenty, such elegance! I must say, you know how to do things! -- I must say -- " Herr Köppen had never visited the house in its former owner's time. He did not come of a patrician family, and had only lately become a man of means. He could never quite get rid of certain vulgar tricks of speech -- like the repetition of "I must say"; and he said "respecks" for "respects."