text:  Wherefore I Frank Hawthorne--being of the age of nine-and-twenty or thereabouts and of sound mind and about to renounce for ever all claim and title to be considered a young man; having married a wife and left sack and all other bad habits; having no longer any fellowship with under-graduates or army subs or medical students or young men about town or any other class of the heterogeneous irregulars who make up "Young England"--being a perfectly disinterested party in the question inasmuch as having lost my reputation for youth I have never acquired one for wisdom--hereby raise my voice against the intolerable cant which assumes every man to be a hare-brained scapegrace at twenty and Solomon at forty-five