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Updated: July 23, 2025
You would have liked her, everybody did, yet you would have thought that nature had failed in self-confidence for once, she was so pointedly designed to express the ancient dame's colour-scheme, even to the delicate auriferous down on her youthful cheek and the purse-proud look of her faintly retrousse nose; though in fact she never had had a purse and scarcely needed one.
"Well, I should say he's a foolish purse-proud sort of fellow," observed another, "who has come into money unexpectedly, and who likes to be the cock of his party, and show off a little." Jorrocks.
Some of these great folks are really well-bred, some of them are only purse-proud and assuming, but they form a class, and are named as above in the common speech. It is in the nature of large fortunes to diminish rapidly, when subdivided and distributed. A million is the unit of wealth, now and here in America.
The state of Britain was represented nearly always by a red-faced, purse-proud farmer with an enormous belly, that fine dream of freedom, the United States, by a cunning, lean-faced rascal in striped trousers and a blue coat.
If he was going to have a medicine man or a priest at all to marry him to the girl of his choice a barbaric survival, at the best, he thought it he would, at any rate, prefer having his friend Arthur a good man and true to having the fat, easy-going, purse-proud rector of the parish; the younger son of a wealthy family who had gone into the Church for the sake of the living, and who rolled sumptuously down the long hilly High Street every day in his comfortable carriage, leaning back with his fat hands folded complacently over his ample knees, and gazing abstractedly, with his little pigs'-eyes half buried in his cheek, at the beautiful prospect afforded him by the broad livery-covered backs of his coachman and his footman.
The German has no costly sports to pay for, no showy establishment to maintain, no purse-proud circle to dress for. His chief pleasure, a seat at the opera or concert, can be had for a few marks; and his wife and daughters walk there in home-made dresses, with shawls over their heads. Indeed, throughout the country the absence of all ostentation is to English eyes quite refreshing.
He did not notice the ashy face, the blazing eyes, the set lips, the trembling hands, of the passionate Spanish nature, until Petralto blazed out in a torrent of unreasonable words and taunts, and ordered Lennox out of his presence. Even then the stupid, good-natured, purse-proud man could not see his danger.
Of all living men I abhor Count Nobili. To love him, in my eyes, is a crime yes, a crime," she repeats, raising her voice, seeing that Enrica is about to speak. "I know him he is a vain, purse-proud reprobate. He has come and planted himself like a mushroom within our ancient walls. Nor did this content him he has had the presumption to lodge himself in a Guinigi palace.
"It was that kind of a letter, was it a catfish letter?" Kitty laughed a little scornfully. "Yes, just like that, Mr. Easily Shocked. Great, showy, purse-proud creature!" "And you wrote to her?" "Yes a letter that would make her come if anything would. Talk of tact I was as smooth as a billiard-ball. But she hasn't come." "The day after the operation I cabled to her," said the Young Doctor.
It seems that he had married her under an assumed name, his real patronymic being Stephens, and that his people were purse-proud and overbearing.
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