text:  In truth we might ask what would become of our aristocratic classes ere long if they came as a body to be identified with their gambling lords their black-leg baronets their insolvent honourables and the seedy set of Chevaliers Diddlerowski and Counts Scaramouchi who caper on the platform outside for their living? The populace would pelt these harlequin horse-jockeys of fashionable life off their stage if there was nothing better to be seen inside; but it fortunately happens that there is better