We represent conditions of life that have had their day--especially me.

Our one remaining chance was an alliance with new aristocrats; and we have failed.

We are past and done for.

Our line has had five hundred years of glory, and we ought to be content.

Enfin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier.' 'Speak for yourself, young Consequence, and leave the destinies of old families to respectable philosophers.