MONEY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENT Flashcards
I.2
declared that he was the same little Jew who had been served up and rejected at the social board a dozen times within her memory;
I.12
My wife was dead right to stay away: she says life’s too short to spend it in breaking in new people.
I.11 (1st)
But society, amused for a while at playing Cinderella, soon wearied of the hearthside role, and welcomed the Fairy Godmother in the shape of any magician powerful enough to turn the shrunken pumpkin back again into the golden coach.
I.11 (2nd)
Rosedale, in particular, was said to have doubled his fortune, and there was talk of his buying the newly-finished house of one of the victims of the crash,
I.4
renewed the sense of servitude which the previous night’s review of her cheque-book had produced.
II.10 (1st)
[the girls working in Mme. Regina’s work-room do not feel] any awkward sense of class distinction
II.11
he looked about him with unconcealed disgust, laying his hat distrustfully on the dusty console adorned with a Rogers statuette.
II.10 (2nd)
I have joined the working classes. … He stared in genuine wonder.