Possible Clues:

• Aristocrat
• Aristocratic descent
• *Aristocrat
• That's a bloody wrong shade of nobility
• Despondent dandy with illustrious parentage
• What aristocrats get in vain, we hear
• Despondent dandy displays nobility
• One can't take it to sound as read to have it in a noble way
• For top people it's all in vain, by the sound of it
• Too noble not to be red in vain, by the sound of it