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The star of Barnabas Beverley, Esquire, was undoubtedly in the

ascendant; no such radiant orb had brightened the Fashionable

Firmament since that of a certain Mr Brummell had risen to

scintillate a while ere it paled and vanished before the royal frown

Thus the Fashionable World turned polite eyes to uely wondered how long that course

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regarded Barnabas Beverley, Esquire, as one to be flattered, smiled

upon, and as worthy of all consideration and respect

For here was one, not only young, fabulously rich and a proved

sportsinality

in matters sartorial, more especially in waistcoats and cravats,

which articles, as the Fashionable World well knows, are the final

gauge of a man's depth and possibilities

Thus, the waistcoats of Barnabas Beverley, Esquire, or their

prototypes to a button, were to be

themselves in the Mall, and the styles of cravat affected by

Barnabas Beverley, Esquire, were to be observed at thein all directions

Wherefore, all this considered, what more natural than that the