text:  It is the same with the aristocrat of birth: some fortunate accident--some well-aimed and successful stroke of profligacy or more rarely of virtue redeems an individual from the common herd: the rays mayhap of royal favour fall upon him and he begins to bloat; his growth is as the growth of the grain of mustard-seed and in a little while he overshadoweth the land: Noble and Right Honourable are his posterity to the end of time