'"My dear, they must earn their living."
"But when they have earned it, what have they done with their lives?" cried Lilias - "their lives which can't be lived over again? Wasted all the hours of sunshine in stuffy offices counting up rows of stupid figures, all for the sake of what you call gentility; to be able to wear the same ugly clothes, and do the same boring things, as the others of their kind. And yet they say that hundreds apply for every vacant clerkship, while in the country skilled labour is more and more difficult to get, because the young men are so well educated that they rush to the towns. But I think that they are only half-educated, not to see where lies the happiest life and the healthiest..."'
from Cornelius by Mrs Henry de la Pasture (Chapter XVII)
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