How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Oh no! Not if trade was good, there wouldn't be. But if things were bad for a long spell, the young ones might go funny. I tell you, they're a selfish, spoilt lot." (9.49)
Ivy Bolton has pretty cliché ideas about the youth of today: they're selfish and spoiled, and they only raise a fuss about things because they don't have anything better to do. We'd love to hear what she'd have to say about the Occupy Wall Street folks.
Quote #8
How warm and lovely it was to hold a child in one's lap, and the soft little arms, the unconscious cheeky little legs. (10.257)
There's youth, and then there's babies. It's hard to tell where Lawrence is drawing the lines here: babies are good; man-babies are bad. Youth is good; youths, as in young people, are not so good.