text: " Another extraordinary phenomenon you cannot fail to observe in the children of the aristocracy; they seem to skip over the equivocal period the neutral ground of human life and emerge from the chrysaloid state of childhood into the full and perfect _imago_ of little lords and gentlemen and little ladies without any of those intermediate conditions of laddism hobble-de-hoyism or bread-and-butterishness so prominently characteristic of the approaching puberty of the rest of the rising generation