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"The same danger, without the 'especially, " said Fleda, with a look that disclaimed any assuming. "One thing is certain," said Constance, "you hardly ever see les nouveaux riches make a graceful use of anything. Fleda, my dear, I am seconding all of your last speech that I understand. Mamma, I perceive, is at work upon the rest." "I think we ought all to be at work upon it," said Mrs.
His 'Essais de Psychologie Contemporaine , Nouveaux Essais , and Etudes et Portraits are certainly not the work of a week, but rather the outcome of years of self-culture and of protracted determined endeavor upon the sternest lines.
Je cherche des parfums nouveaux, des fleurs plus larges, des plaisirs inéprouvés. "It may be all a magnificent illusion, but " he began. "Everything is an illusion in this life, though seldom magnificent," she answered. They slowly walked up the avenue. The night was tepid; motor cars, looking like magnified beetles, with bulging eyes of fire, went swiftly by.
The service is really perfect, and the rooms airy and delightfully cool and cool rooms are great treasures in this hot place. The heat has been almost unbearable to us from the mountains, and one morning I nearly collapsed while having things "fitted" in the stuffy rooms of a dressmaker. Many of these nouveaux riches dress elegantly, and their jewels are splendid.
Besides, his living chiefly with the select society which I have described precluded the possibility of seeing much of what were called les nouveaux riches. 'The few general observations he made on French society at this time I shall mention.
We may now Nature's morbid grace being a topic whereof the reader has already heard much and will necessarily hear more turn to the "much pleasanter," the in fact "Monday," aspect of La Ferte; by which I mean les nouveaux whose arrivals and reactions constituted the actual kinetic aspect of our otherwise merely real Nonexistence.
Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," August 8th, 1864. "Histoire de Marie Antoinette," par E. and J. de Goncourt, p. 11. How popular masked halls were in London at this time may be learned from Walpole's "Letters," and especially from a passage in which he gives an account of one given by "sixteen or eighteen young Lords" just two months before this ball at Vienna.
These nouveaux arrivés have recently emerged from the commonplace body of the population and owe their emergence into the leisure class to the exercise of traits and propensities which are not to be classed as prowess in the ancient sense.
And there is also a great deal that is painful in the absence of freedom in the division of ranks, and the rising or falling from one place in it to another. Lady Jeune believes that all the world would go right, or at least be a great deal better, if it were not for the Nouveaux Riches. Some of the Eton masters talk to me in the same way.
A new race of beings called the "nouveaux enrichés," whose services have been chiefly auxiliary to the war, at present absorb the visible wealth of the nation. Amongst them are many respectable persons.
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