The Amateur Gentleman

So Barnabas bowed to each in turn and went forth from the scene of

his triumph, deliberate of step and with head carried high as became

a conqueror.

And thus the star of Barnabas Beverley, Esquire, waxed and waned and

vanished utterly from the Fashionable Firmament, and, in time, came

to be regarded as only a comet, after all.