How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"Now I pretend again to read. I raise my book, till it almost covers my eyes. But I cannot read in the presence of horse-dealers and plumbers. I have no power of ingratiating myself. I do not admire that man; he does not admire me. Let me at least be honest. Let me denounce this piffling, trifling, self-satisfied world; these horse-hair seats; these coloured photographs of piers and parades. I could shriek aloud at the smug self-satisfaction, at the mediocrity of this world, which breeds horse-dealers with coral ornaments hanging from their watch-chains." (2b.57)
Neville, meanwhile, seems pretty ambivalent about interacting with people whose station is lower than his own, alternately asserting his superiority to them. It's clear that he doesn't share Bernard's talent for talking to people different from himself.
Quote #5
"His thin lips are somewhat pursed; his cheeks are pale; he pores in an office over some obscure commercial document. 'My father, a banker at Brisbane'—being ashamed of him he always talks of him—failed. So he sits in an office, Louis the best scholar in the school." (3b.24)
Here, Bernard offers external verification that Louis was, indeed, an exceptional scholar, and it seems that Bernard thinks it's kind of a waste that he is using those talents on an office job. Apparently, the intensity of Louis's shame is evident to everyone because he constantly returns to the topic of his father, his biggest source of shame. Is anyone else suddenly feeling pretty bad for Louis's daddy?
Quote #6
"I like to be asked to come to Mr. Burchard's private room and report on our commitments to China. I hope to inherit an arm-chair and a Turkey carpet. My shoulder is to the wheel; I roll the dark before me, spreading commerce where there was chaos in the far parts of the world. If I press on from chaos making order, I shall find myself where Chatham stood, and Pitt, Burke and Sir Robert Peel. Thus I expunge certain stains, and erase old defilements; the woman who gave me a flag from the top of the Christmas tree; my accent; beatings and other tortures; the boasting boys; my father, a banker at Brisbane." (6b.4)
Having now grown up and risen in his career, Louis wastes no time in telling the reader about all the material gains his promotions and success have entailed. He asserts that his successes have helped him shrug off the humiliations of the past, including his poor banker daddy and other "tortures."