"Gentlemen and Federalists, glasses!--Ludwell Cary, and may he live to hear his children's children read 'Aurelius'!" The Federalists drank the toast with acclaim, while the Republicans with equal ostentation did no such thing.

Mr.Pincornet in his corner, hearing the words "Gentlemen" and "Cary," drank with gusto his very thin wine, and Adam drank because he had always liked the Carys and certainly had no grudge against "Aurelius," whoever he might be.
In the first lull of sound the man at the table with Lewis Rand spoke in a loud, harsh, but agreeable voice.

"Well, Mr.Cary, the staunchest of Republicans, though he can't drink that toast, need not deny praise to a masterpiece of words.

Words, sir, not facts.

What I want to know is at whom--not at what, at _whom_--you were firing?
I thought once that Aaron Burr was your mark.