It was,' said Sir Gregory, 'for him and them to cure all that.

He would not,' he said, 'at that moment, say anything with reference to salaries.

It was, as they were all aware, a very difficult subject, and did not seem to be necessarily connected with the few remarks which the present opportunity had seemed to him to call for.' He then told them they were all his beloved children; that they were a credit to the establishment; that he handed them over without a blush to his excellent colleagues, Sir Warwick Westend and Mr.Jobbles, and that he wished in his heart that each of them could be successful.

And having so spoken, Sir Gregory went his way.
It was beautiful then to see how Mr.Jobbles swam down the long room and handed out his examination papers to the different candidates as he passed them.

'Twas a pity there should have been but five; the man did it so well, so quickly, with such a gusto! He should have been allowed to try his hand upon five hundred instead of five.