But over the years reality has diverged further and further from the ideal as the new aristocracy became more entrenched.
In the new aristocracy of the drawing-room a lady is actually asked whether she sings.
There was the man who foreshadowed, in his own career, the new aristocracy about to be evoked by the new machinery.
The old families they yearned after might have cast Scarlett out but the ladies of the new aristocracy did not know it.
Some families found themselves suddenly catapulted into the upper classes to form a new American aristocracy.
Ms. LeRoy says she knows what members of the new, young aristocracy want.
Now, however, the new aristocracy existed due to the organization of society, and as such, this order could only be overthrown through a revolution.
They thus became the leaders of the new territorial aristocracy in Devon which emerged in the 1700s.
Instead of gozoku, new aristocracies, Kuge families emerged in this period.
There is a school of thought which regards them as the new aristocracy.