Amount To What Counts

Unforeseen and sorrowful circumstances brought Master Carlbury to 23 Rhuidrock House to stay with his Aunt Bea and her husband until he could establish himself as a young man of means. In earnest Master Carlbury did employ every effort to secure his fortune but was found wanting in areas where it counted. Master Carlbury employing every effort in his aspirations - in truth and to the fault of lacking boundaries - did encompass avenues and aims that were questionable. Daily it was impressed upon him that as he sought to construct his future to build up a reputable character. He was counseled to ensure that all his ventures were void of skullduggery and cemented with integrity to be of service to others on occasion to avoid shortcuts to be humble and not hifalutin. Master Carlbury was lectured and cautioned constantly to strengthen his convictions and not display a sense of expertise or entitlement that surpassed the reality of his experience intelligence and station highlighting himself as a fraudulent supercilious and vainglorious person. These are the penned verses that endeavored to shepherd the one and only Master Carlbury.