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Introduction

The title character evidently lived uptown, a term frequently designating the more fashionable areas of a town or city, because he attracts attention when he went downtown. Evidently he characteristically rode through the streets, which set him apart from the people on the pavement, those who lacked the money for a horse or carriage. The phrase also suggests that, unlike Cory, they led very visible lives close to the earth and lacked the insulation from hunger and other misfortunes that his money and connections provided him. He is described almost as if he were royalty, with ...