The entire figure was fantastic, even a little grotesque, though after a pleasant fashion.

In a mincing voice and with a strong French accent, M.Achille Pincornet, dancing-master and performer on the violin, intimated that he wished to vote for Mr.
Ludwell Cary.

Lewis Rand glanced sharply up, then made a sign to a sandy-haired and freckled man who, tally in hand, stood near him.
"I challenge that vote!" cried the man with the tally.
"Mr.Pincornet's vote is challenged!" shouted the sheriff.
"Order, order, gentlemen! Your reason, Mr.Mocket ?" "The gentleman is a Frenchman and not a citizen of the United States! He is not even a citizen of the French Republic! He is an emigre.

He has no vote.

Mark off his name!" "Sir!" cried the challenged voter, "I am a de Pincornet, cadet of a house well known in Gascony! If I left France, I left it to find a great and free country, a country where one gentleman may serve another!" A roar of laughter, led by Mocket, arose from the younger and lower sort of Republicans.