For ourselves, you see, these choice wines and these scientific dishes are of no importance to us; but gentlemen seem to retain something of the _navet_ of children about food, and one likes to please them--that is, when they show the becoming, decent self-government of our admirable rectors. 
They retain something of the navet of children about food, and one likes to please them - that is, when they show the decent restraint of our admirable rectors. 