text:  They talk of music of which they know something--of books of which they know little--and of pictures of which they know less; they have always read "the last novel " which is as much as they can well carry; they know literary professional and scientific men at Somerset House but if they meet them in Park Lane look as if they never saw them before; they are very peevish have something to say against every man and always say the worst first; they are very quiet in their manner almost sly and never use any of the colloquialisms of the fast fellows; they treat their inferiors with great consideration addressing them "honest friend " "my good man " and so on but have very little heart and less spirit