Youth Chapters 13-16

In which a young man, newly matriculated and robed in the splendid garb of youth’s rite of passage, adventures through triumphs of attire, ill-fated attempts at smoking, and the complex companionship of friends both gentle and tempestuous. Amid first tastes of champagne and the unsteadiness of burgeoning adulthood, he encounters the biting sting of offence and the tender strains of friendship and rivalry, all under the watchful gaze of a world both enchanting and exacting.