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Ulysses

Barraclough and being able to read music into the bargain,
command its own price where baritones were ten a penny
and procure for its fortunate possessor in the near future an
entrée into fashionable houses in the best residential

quarters of financial magnates in a large way of business
and titled people where with his university degree of B. A.
(a huge ad in its way) and gentlemanly bearing to all the
more influence the good impression he would infallibly
score a distinct success, being blessed with brains which
also could be utilised for the purpose and other requisites,
if his clothes were properly attended to so as to the better
worm his way into their good graces as he, a youthful tyro
in—society’s sartorial niceties, hardly understood how a
little thing like that could militate against you. It was in
fact only a matter of months and he could easily foresee
him participating in their musical and artistic conversaziones
during the festivities of the Christmas season, for choice,
causing a slight flutter in the dovecotes of the fair sex and
being made a lot of by ladies out for sensation, cases of
which, as he happened to know, were on record—in fact,
without giving the show away, he himself once upon a
time, if he cared to, could easily have. Added to which of
course would be the pecuniary emolument by no mean.s
to be sneezed at, going hand in hand with his tuition fees.

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