text:  Then what running to Debrett for our genealogy our connexions our _set_ and all that customary inquisition of the affairs of the great which makes the delight of the little: the "Book of Beauty " and "Pictures of the Nobility " will be ransacked of course for verses by our lordship or portraits of our lordship's ladyship or of the ladies Exquisitina or Nonsuchina daughters of our lordship with slavering verses by intolerable poets; then it will be discovered and the discovery duly recorded that our lordship's eldest son Viscount Ne'er-do-weel and the Honourable Mr Nogo are pursuing cricket and pie-crust (commonly called their _studies_) at Eton or Harrow but are expected at our lordship's seat in Some-Shire for their holidays: then we will be proposed seconded and elected like other noblemen equally undistinguished in the world of science a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the Society of Arts--and for the same good reason because we may be a lord; and you and all the world will say it was very proper that I should have been elected though knowing no more of science than that acoustics (if we mistake not) means a pump; or of arts than that calico-printing and letterpress printing are somehow or other not exactly one and the same thing