text:  The fast fellows rejoice exceedingly in the spread of their servile imitation of fashionable folly this gentlemanly profligacy at second-hand; and perhaps this is the worst trait in their character for it is at once malicious and unwise: malicious because the contemplation of humanity degraded by bad example in high station should rather be a source of secret shame than of devilish gratification: unwise because their example is a discredit to their order and a danger