"I insist that my will be obeyed." "Your dignity I have the respect for," replied the Duke, laboredly; "but you grow old and foolish." "Foolish! I ?" "Yes; you are absurd.

You live in past centuries.

You think to-day we must do all that your ancestors did." "Can you do better ?" "Yes; the world has change.

It has progress.

With it I advance, but you do not.