Come! I have little time and few chances to acquire that which I have longed for always,--the grace of life.

Teach me how to enter a drawing-room; how to--how to dance with a lady!" His tone, imperious when he demanded the Marseillaise, was now genial, softened to a mellow persuasiveness.

Mr.Pincornet shrugged his shoulders.

He had been offended, but he was not unmagnanimous, and he had a high sense of the importance of his art.

He had seen in France what came of uncultivated law-givers.