the setting appears such that we will have to assume he had been a barrister with the high court , who had ascended to this miraculous fortune by establishing dominance over his multitudes of nemeses through the magnificence of his wigs plumagemuch as the peacock aggressively extends his tail feathers to emerge victorious over his sexual competitorsbut who , once again , through some strange turn of events , found himself somehow disbarred , further ejected from his position , and concomitantly despised by all .