raises the colors, and gives brilliancy to the piece.  Be persuaded that he will acquire it:  he has too much sense not to know its value; and if I am not greatly mistaken, more persons than one are now endeavoring to give it him.  Monsieur Tollot says:  “In order to be exactly all that you wish him, he only wants those little nothings, those graces in detail, and that amiable ease, which can only be acquired by usage of the great world.  I am assured that he is, in that respect, in good hands.  I do not know whether that does not rather imply in fine arms.”  Without entering into a nice discussion of the last question, I congratulate you and myself upon your being so near that point at which I so anxiously wish you to arrive.  I am sure that all your attention and endeavors will be exerted; and, if exerted, they will succeed.  Mr. Tollot says, that you are inclined to be fat, but I hope you will decline it as much as you can; not by taking anything corrosive to make you lean, but by taking as little as you can of those things that would make you fat.  Drink no chocolate; take your coffee without cream:  you cannot possibly avoid suppers at Paris, unless you avoid company too, which I would by no means have you do; but eat as little at supper as you can, and make even an allowance for that little at your dinners.  Take occasionally a double dose of riding and fencing; and now that summer is come, walk a good deal in the Tuileries.  It is a real inconvenience to anybody to be fat, and besides it is ungraceful for a young fellow.  ‘A propos’, I had like to have forgot to tell you, that I charged Tollot to attend particularly to your utterence and diction; two points of the utmost importance.  To the first he says:  “His enunciation is not bad, but it is to be wished that it were still better; and he expresses himself with more fire than elegance.  Usage of good company will instruct him likewise in that.”  These, I allow, are all little things, separately; but aggregately, they make a most important and great article in the account of a gentleman.  In the House of Commons you can never make a figure without elegance of style, and gracefulness of utterance; and you can never succeed as a courtier at your own Court, or as a minister at any other, without those innumerable ‘petite riens dans les manieres, et dans les attentions’.  Mr. Yorke is by this time at Paris; make your court to him, but not so as to disgust, in the least, Lord Albemarle, who may possibly dislike your considering Mr. Yorke as the man of business, and him as only ’pour orner la scene’.  Whatever your opinion may be upon that point, take care not to let it appear; but be well with them both by showing no public preference to either.