They spent more than they had and they earned more than they were worth.

That is to say, they lived an unnatural life." "It is fortunate, then," Tallente remarked, "that the new generation is almost here." "They, too, carry the taint," Miller insisted.

Tallente looked thoughtfully across towards his host.
"It seems to me that this is a little disheartening," he said.

"It is exactly what one might have expected from Horlock or even Lethbridge.
Miller, who is nearer to the proletariat than any of us, would have us believe that the people who should be the bulwark of the State are not fit for their position." "I fancy," Dartrey said soothingly, "that Miller was talking more as a philosopher than a practical man." "I speak according to my experience," the latter insisted, a little doggedly.
"Amongst your own constituents ?" Tallente asked, with a faint smile, reminiscent of a recent unexpected defeat of one of Miller's partisans in a large constituency.
"Amongst them and others," was the somewhat acid reply.

"Sands lost his seat at Tenchester through the apathy of the very class for whom we fight." "Tenchester is a wonderful place," Nora intervened.