There was no reason, she said, why the Catholics should monopolize all the graces." "Yes, I learned to dance, and for the same reason.

I think my uncle rather scandalized the people of our religion in Canterbury.

He maintained that it was necessary, as part of the education of a gentleman; and that in the English Protestant court, dancing was as highly thought of as in that of France, the queen herself being noted for her dancing, and none can throw doubts upon her Protestantism.

My mother and aunt were both against it, but as my father supported my uncle, he had his own way." "Well I see, Philip, that we shall be good comrades.

There are many among us younger Huguenots who, though as staunch in the religion as our fathers, and as ready to fight and die for it if need be, yet do not see that it is needful to go about always with grave faces, and to be cut off from all innocent amusements.