Suppose--suppose you teach me a minuet ?" He laughed as he spoke, but he spoke in earnest.

"Knowledge! I want all kinds of knowledge.

I know law, and I know what to do with a jury, and I know tobacco--worse luck!--but I don't know the little things, the little gracious things that--that make a man liked.

If I were a Federalist, and if I didn't know so much about tobacco, I would go, Mr.
Pincornet, to your dancing class at Fontenoy!" He laughed again.

"I can't do that, can I?
The Churchills would all draw their swords.