Waugh, who had risen from the ranks, Howells, who had begun as shipping clerk, despised those above whom they had risen, regarded as the peculiar weaknesses of the working classes such universal failings as prejudice, short-sightedness, and shirking.
They lost no opportunity to show their lack of sympathy with the class from which they had sprung and to which they still belonged in reality, their devotion to the class plutocratic to which they aspired.

Arthur, in losing the narrowness of the class from which he had been ejected, lost all class narrowness.

The graduates from the top have the best chance to graduate into the wide, wide world of human brotherhood.

By an artificial process--by compulsion, vanity, reason, love--he became what Madelene was by nature.

She was one of those rare human beings born with a just and clear sense of proportion.