I hate the very name of Sir Gregory Hardlines.' 'But, mamma, won't the general effect be to produce a much higher class of education among the men ?' said Gertrude.
'In the army and navy the best men get on the best,' said Linda.
'Do they, by jingo!' said Uncle Bat.

'It's very little you know about the navy, Miss Linda.' 'Well, then, at any rate they ought,' said Linda.
'I would have a competitive examination in every service,' said Gertrude.

'It would make young men ambitious.

They would not be so idle and empty as they now are, if they had to contend in this way for every step upwards in the world.' 'The world,' said Mrs.Woodward, 'will soon be like a fishpond, very full of fish, but with very little food for them.

Every one is scrambling for the others' prey, and they will end at last by eating one another.