'"...That's why Badger-Skeffington always wins everything - Daddy says he's literally full of food, like a French racehorse. They're nouveaux riches, you know."
"Now hold on, Miles, that is not true. I often see Bobby Badger at my club, he's frightfully poor, it was a fearful effort to send the boy here at all, I believe."
"Yes, I know, Uncle Hughie, the point is that they are nouveaux riches and frightfully poor as well. There are lots like that here. Their fathers and mothers give up literally everything to send them."
"Oh dear, how poor everybody seems to be, in England," said Grace. "It's too terrible when even the nouveaux riches are poor."
from The Blessing by Nancy Mitford (Part II, Chapter Nine)
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