It is not snobbish of persons of rank of any other nation to employ their knife in the manner alluded to.

I have seen Monte Fiasco clean his trencher with his knife, and every Principe in company doing likewise.

I have seen, at the hospitable board of H.I.H.the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden--( who, if these humble lines should come under her Imperial eyes, is besought to remember graciously the most devoted of her servants)--I have seen, I say, the Hereditary Princess of Potztausend-Donnerwetter (that serenely-beautiful woman) use her knife in lieu of a fork or spoon; I have seen her almost swallow it, by Jove! like Ramo Samee, the Indian juggler.

And did I blench?
Did my estimation for the Princess diminish?
No, lovely Amalia! One of the truest passions that ever was inspired by woman was raised in this bosom by that lady.

Beautiful one! long, long may the knife carry food to those lips! the reddest and loveliest in the world! The cause of my quarrel with Marrowfat I never breathed to mortal soul for four years.