He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares.

As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world.

Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares.

Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great.

Where does he come from?
Shares.