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Updated: May 10, 2025
Brigit moved away, her upper lip raised disdainfully. How odious they all were! And how detestable the whole house with its health of art-treasures, selected by an artist friend of Newlyn's. "Nouveau-riche?" asked Joyselle, joining her. "No. That is, they are well-born, but they are nouveau as regards money.
Besides, he's a very influential man and one of the wealthiest in this part of the Panhandle." "Nouveau-riche," sniffed Miss Sue, with a toss of her head. "If that means newly rich, why, he's not!" exclaimed the other girl, with continued warmth.
The shops and the landscape the cosmopolitan crowd with its Babel of many tongues the great hotels, built of stucco in the nouveau-riche style so rasping to sensitive nerves the striped awnings, the low balconies, the gaudy house-fronts all these our heroines looked at and commented on and revelled in with the joy of fresh and unspoiled youth.
They expected a country fit for heroes to live in, and what awaited them was a condition of things to which only a defeated people could be asked to resign itself. The food to which the poilu had, for nearly five years, been accustomed at the front was become, since the armistice, the exclusive monopoly of the capitalist or the nouveau-riche in the rear.
So the piastres remained together with provincial French notes and small denominations of dinars and what-not, nominally worth something somewhere, but in fact unsaleable. The Germans have just now a very popular word for a nouveau-riche, it is a schieber, one who exchanges. Getting your money changed is one of the most wasteful processes for you and one of the most gainful for him.
A story is current of a celebrated NOUVEAU-RICHE, who having had occasion to oblige that excellent prelate the Bishop of Bullocksmithy, asked his Lordship, in return, to confirm his children privately in his Lordship's own chapel; which ceremony the grateful prelate accordingly performed. Can satire go farther than this? Is there even in this most amusing of prints, any more NAIVE absurdity?
The owner of the chair was tolerably young, not bad looking, and most expensively attired. Her face had a certain vacant, languid, half ennuyee air which I have learned to associate with women of the nouveau-riche type women with small brains and restless minds, habitually plunged in a vortex of gaiety, and miserable when left for a passing moment to their own resources.
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