'It is widely respected; and you respect it: and why do you respect it ?' 'We have illustrious names in our aristocracy.' 'We beat you in illustrious names and in the age of the lines, my good young man.' 'But not in a race of nobles who have stood for the country's liberties.' 'So long as it imperilled their own! Any longer ?' 'Well, they have known how to yield.

They have helped to build our Constitution.' 'Reverence their ancestors, then! The worse for such descendants.

But you have touched the exact stamp of the English mind:--it is, to accept whatsoever is bequeathed it, without inquiry whether there is any change in the matter.

Nobles in very fact you would not let them be if they could.

Nobles in name, with a remote recommendation to posterity--that suits you!' He sat himself up to stuff a fresh bowl of tobacco, while he pursued: 'Yes, yes: you worship your aristocracy.