Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking nigger—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.

And he that can rear up a pig in his house, / Hath cheaper his bacon, and sweeter his souse.

Sir John [Suckling] threw his repartees about the table with much sparkliness, and gentileness of wit, to the admiration of them all.

As the Greeks gape at women heaped up in selfslaughter, / They hear of Aeneas's flight with the loot. Referencing events from the second act of Berlioz's Les Troyens.