Sentence:  That TOM, who was the <WSD>GO</WSD> among the GOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter the "vulgar stare" of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smiled at this "provincial" sort of rudeness. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A dandy; a fashionable person.