Got a pretty good-sized colored population.
VASILI
I mean no aristocracy—no great old families such as we have, that go back and back to the Middle Ages.
PIKE
[genially]
Well, I expect if they go back that far they might just as well set down and stay there. No, sir, the poor in my country don't have to pay taxes for a lot of useless kings and earls and first grooms of the bedchamber and second ladies in waiting, and I don't know what all. If anybody wants our money for nothin' he has to show energy enough to steal it. I wonder a man like you doesn't emigrate.
VASILI
Bravo!
HAWCASTLE
[to HORACE]