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But again there stalks forth, to confound all our theories, the superb figure of Gluck, who fell in love but once, and then for all time, with Maria Anna Pergin, who loved him, and whose mother approved of him, but whose purse-proud father despised him for a musician.
Then, as now, the commerce of the world was in Jewish hands, and it was felt that so much wealth ought not to be in such hands. That element which still exists in the Jewish character of being purse-proud and offensively familiar in prosperity, is reported to have twitted the Christians with the worship of a Jewish prophet as a God.
Burs. So it well may be; for it cost a mint of money. Wheel. No matter to you what anything costs. Happy dog as you are! You roll in money; and yet you talk of being of no consequence. Burs. But I am not of half so much consequence as Lord John am I? Wheel. Are you? Why, aren't you twice as rich as he! Burs. Very true, but I'm not purse-proud. Wheel. You purse-proud!
Has viper's blood, infused in these herbs, deceived me? Or has Canidia dressed this baleful food? But if ever, facetious Maecenas, you should have a desire for any such stuff again, I wish that your girl may oppose her hand to your kiss, and lie at the furthest part of the bed. Though, purse-proud with your riches, you strut along, yet fortune does not alter your birth.
Now, Mr Jones did not like Mr Inglis; he used to say that Mr Inglis was pompous, and purse-proud, and vain; and, what was more, Mr Inglis had given the little man dreadful offence in buying the two-acre field where the potato piece was that used to be so trampled down.
'So be it! said the Egyptian, with eyes flashing such fierce joy, that Julia's gaze sank trembling beneath them. 'To-morrow eve, then, order thy litter thou hast one at thy command? 'Surely yes, returned the purse-proud Julia.
The duke looked at the old man in a state of stupefaction. How on earth should he deal with this purse-proud egotist, who took the liberty of paying his hotel bill, giving up his apartments and ordering his servants? and doing all this without the faintest idea that he was committing an unpardonable impertinence.
If 't bed bin gradjooal like, she might have took it more natcheral; but it come all of a suddent, an' she's that purse-proud now, 'm, that she'll be movin' up on Nob Hill ef she don't hev no stroke o' bad luck to show 'er her place! Good day, 'm!"
His business is going up, he must be worth now between seven and eight thousand a year. And he began as an office boy, he hadn't a penny piece, made it all himself." "So I should think; a purse-proud ass!" "Never mind, his eight thousand is as good an eight thousand as any in the land, better than a great many.
He kept himself as erect and stiff as a poker, and brandished the thong of his loaded whip with the pride of a gentleman farmer. 'Tis true, he did not always hear the sarcastic remarks which were passed upon him by those who witnessed his good-natured vanity: "There he goes," some laboring man on the wayside would exclaim, "a purse-proud bodagh upon our hands.
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