The things we do!

Indeed, it must be said that Lord Farintosh made
great progress under this artist, and that he danced very much better in
his third season than in the first and second years after he had come
upon the town. From the same instructor the Marquis learned the latest
novelties in French conversation, the choicest oaths and phrases (for
which he was famous), so that although his French grammar was naturally
defective, he was enabled to order a dinner at Philippe's, and to bully a
waiter, or curse a hackney-coachman with extreme volubility. A young
nobleman of his rank was received with the distinction which was his due,
by the French sovereign of that period; and at the Tuileries, and the
houses of the French nobility, which he visited, Monsieur le Marquis de
Farintosh excited considerable remark, by the use of some of the phrases
which his young professor had taught to him. People even went so far as
to say that the Marquis was an awkward and dull young man, of the very
worst manners.


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