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M. de Voltaire ranked him beneath the lowest country-squire; and the very mention of a man of letters was terrifying to his imagination from its disturbing the current of his own ideas; he revelled in the plenitude of power, yet felt dissatisfied with the mere title of king.
"Do you insult me, you petty country-squire?" answered Louis. "I know very well that you have not incurred the penalty of death in the eyes of men; but it is at the tribunal of God, Monsieur, that you will be judged."
He is terribly aged, is he not, this last year." This priest was a very pleasant-looking fellow, going on for sixty years old, I would say; and, except for his dress, resembled some fine old country-squire. He wore a great brown periwig that set off his rosy face.
In that age, they were equally removed from the coarse and boisterous jollity of the English country-squire, and the heartless conventionalities of high life. In addition to this, his sensitive feelings rightly enough detected that he was regarded in the mother-country as a sort of intruder.
"Lord Ellersdeane, sir," he announced. "Can he see you?" The two partners looked at each other in evident surprise; then Gabriel moved to the door and bowed solemnly to some person outside. "Will your lordship come in?" he said politely. Lord Ellersdeane, a big, bustling, country-squire type of man, came into the room, nodding cheerily to its occupants. "Sorry to disturb you, Mr.
At the time when Aldous Raeburn, as he then was the grandson and heir of old Lord Maxwell came across her first she was a handsome, undeveloped girl, of a type not uncommon in our modern world, belonging by birth to the country-squire class, and by the chances of a few years of student life in London to the youth that takes nothing on authority, and puts to fierce question whatever it finds already on its path Governments, Churches, the powers of family and wealth that takes, moreover, its social pity for the only standard, and spends that pity only on one sort and type of existence.
We cannot think that this view of his subject, which is prominent and dwelt on at great length and with much pertinacity, is dictated either by rigid logic or melting charity! A labouring man is not allowed to knock down a hare or a partridge that spoils his garden: a country-squire keeps a pack of hounds: a lady of quality rides out with a footman behind her, on two sleek, well-fed horses.
"Do you insult me, you petty country-squire?" answered Louis. "I know very well that you have not incurred the penalty of death in the eyes of men; but it is at the tribunal of God, Monsieur, that you will be judged."
It is interesting to note the difference between this country-squire and that typical country-squire with which the plays and novels of the last hundred and fifty years have made us familiar. We all know him. Purple with Port, beef-witted, tyrannical, intolerant, ignorant, never happy unless when on horseback or drunk, nor looking happy then.
In appearance he was a country-squire on his way to town. I determined to give him a surprise as we went along. "I hope you are well, Mr. Hamerton," I said. He gave a great start at that, and looked at me closely. "I do not remember you," he said. "And why do you call me Mr. Hamerton?" "I knew that is not the name you were usually known by, father. Would you be easier if I called you Mr. Young?"
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