How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
Somebody [...] raced across the grass—would no one stop her? (25)
Hello, sarcasm. Woof's question imitates the voice of the beadle at Oxbridge. This vision at Fernham is the reverse image of the narrator's experience when she walked on the beadle's "turf" (i.e., grass) at Oxbridge.
Quote #8
Here was the soup. It was a plain gravy soup [...] Next came the beef with its attendant greens and potatoes—a homely trinity, suggesting the rumps of cattle in a muddy market, and sprouts curled and yellowed at the edge. (1.26)
We don't have to hammer home the contrast with the Oxbridge meal, but we will anyway: food at Oxbridge is delicious and beautiful; food (and plates) at Fernham is unappetizing and gross. Let's all just order pizza, okay?
Quote #9
That was all. The meal was over. Everybody scraped their chairs back [...] soon the hall was emptied of every sign of food. (1.26)
Meanwhile at Oxbridge, everyone lounges around on comfortable couches smoking cigars after the meal. Notice how Woolf uses short, jarring sentences to give you an impression of how abruptly the meal ended? That's some real mastery, right there.