Look ye there, now, that's not the way to take Snuff. The thing does not consist in stuffing it up the Nostrils, as if you were gormandizing upon it--with your Arm lifted up, and your Head shrunk down, just as if you were frighten'd at something--but it must be introduced as a grace to Conversation. Now observe me--I make the most of my Person--hold my Head up with an air. Then suppose me in the middle of a story about an Amour, or the French Court, or a new fashion, or what you will--then I open my Snuff-box, then look at myself in the glass, and reclaim a straggling Hair--then I proceed. I wave my Arm out to its full length, then I gradually bring it to, forming a graceful Semicircle, and never move my head towards my hand--thus (Mimicks) but I make my hand pay its devoirs to my head--thus. (Mimicks) Then I apply my fingers with the utmost delicatesse--and I smile--I smile and look as if I were thinking--and then I don't souse my hand down at once, thus--(Mimicks) but I restore it to its place in the same graceful manner--thus--you see now the Semicircle opens. Then with an elegant turn of my wrist, I drop my Arm in a gentle dying--dying fall.

Lady Betty Mockmode Monologue from The Englishman from Paris

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