money-flaunting

Updated: July 22, 2025

Now it ran boldly on the surface of the pattern; now it was half hid under something about art or books or plays or schemes for patronizing the poor and undermining their self-respect but it was always there. For the first time Leonora jarred upon her fiercely unendurably. She listened until the sound grew indistinct, became mingled with the chatter of that money-flaunting throng.

David Graham Phillips - The Cost