Wirsen looked upon Strindberg as a parvenu of intelligence, just as certain academicians regarded Spencer as a parvenu of science.
But the thing for which a parvenu is never forgiven is an affectation of pride and insolence, and the belief that by assuming the airs of a grand seigneur, he can lead people to forget the name and the clothes that he used to wear.
It reminds theparvenu of his birth, the public official of the acts of injustice he has committed, the man without sense of honor of the insults he has endured.
He could not rely for support upon the haughty magnates who could trace their descent back for centuries and despised the parvenu with a shorter pedigree and a smaller estate.
A littleparvenu sharp enough, but really not over-gifted with parts.
But Du Roy felt the presence of this gold in the haughtier tone of the parvenu barrister, in his more insolent gestures, his more daring affirmation, his perfect self-confidence.
When a conceited parvenu goes mad, his conceit is as mad as the rest of him.
And what a parvenu the baron would have been to the Roman aristocrat!
And it was King Janus himself who gave Pelendria--that most royal and bountiful fief of a prince of Lusignan--into the hands of thatparvenu of Naples, Rizzo!
Of late this disposition has been greatly intensified by the multitude of rapid fortunes from the new control of Nature and from the trusts, and the parvenu ostentation accompanying them.
Why is a parvenu stranded in a society which may consist of his inferiors in capacity and morals?
Marriages de convenance are when a parvenu barters his gold for good blood, or where an ancienne princesse mends her fortune with a nouveau riche, profound indifference, meanwhile, on each side.
If there are any unpleasant characteristics of the parvenu you have forgotten, the typical Yucatecan has got those too.
There he reveals himself the haughty executioner of hypocricies and greeds, of false glories and real turpitudes, of money and success, of the parvenu of the Bourse and the parvenu of the feuilleton.
Out of this and another small grant the parvenu manor of “Knightsbridge and Westbourne” was manufactured.
The extracts from Mr. Kemble’s work shew how this encouragement to church buildings was abused; and how little the parvenu aristocracy, thus made, knew of moral obligation.
In his eyes there was something democratic and parvenu in a round table.
And then the great discomfiture of that arch enemy of all that was respectable in Barchester, of that new low church clerical parvenu that had fallen amongst them, that alone would be worth more, almost than the situation itself.
Perhaps during their ride that parvenuhad taken occasion to inflict some fresh mortification on his wife.
Here the Parvenu had bought a home mellowed by the slow growth of years, touched into poetic beauty by the chastening fingers of time.
In London Mr. Smithson had created a palace; but it was a new palace, which still had a faint flavour of bricks and mortar, and which was apt to remind the spectator of that wonderful erection of Aladdin, the famous Parvenu of Eastern story.
While he preaches the Republic, and the overthrow of monarchical dignities, the parvenu was intoxicated with happiness if a duke would go out of his way after dinner to one of his friends.
Consequently a morbid parvenu vanity, which was ready to take umbrage at everything, combatted the awakening of her interest in him.
One of the first acts of the new sovereign was to banish Yi Săk and Cho Min-su who had insisted upon putting the parvenu Chang upon the throne.
Ten forts were built in western Liao-tung to guard against Chinese advances, which shows that she had regained nearly all the territory she had lost at the hands of the parvenu Wang-mang.
After Yu-jeung, the rightful heir, had received large reinforcements from various sources, he attacked the forces of this parvenu at Mu-ju and gained a victory.
The parvenu Chang, at the instance of Im Yun sent an envoy to the Mongol court saying that the king had handed over the reins of government to him.
His Excellency bowed; the parvenu humbled himself lower than the earth; then they conversed for a moment.
It was the perfect type of the establishment improvised, immediately upon alighting from the railway train, by a parvenu of colossal wealth, in great haste to enjoy himself.
