text:  And if at any time in the fulness of their hearts they refer to some freak of their own youth they appear to do it with a sort of apology to themselves that such wise individuals as they are now should ever have done such things! And as the world stands at present it is the old story of the Lion and the Painter; the elderly gentlemen are likely to have it their own way; they say what they like while the young ones are content to do what they like