But, confound it! I never have the chance now.

I'm getting old and idle.

The young ones beat me.

As old Nestor says--the gods don't give us everything at one time: I was a young fellow once, and now I am getting an old and wise one.

Old, at any rate; which is a gift that comes to everybody if they live long enough, so it raises no jealousy." The Earl smiled comfortably at his wife.
"Oh, my lord, people who have been neighbors twenty years must not talk to each other about age," said Mrs.Arrowpoint.