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"He kept this gentleman-farmer side of his life and his marriage entirely hidden from his crook acquaintances; that is, from all except one whom he trusted as his most loyal friend. Before you were old enough to remember, he was tripped up and sent away on a twenty-year sentence." "And he's he's still in prison?" whispered Maggie. Larry did not heed the interruption.
"Last year he threatened to shoot the foxes in Dillsborough Wood." "No!" said Kate, quite horrified. "I'm afraid he's a bad sort of fellow all round," said the attorney. "I don't see why he shouldn't claim what he thinks due to him," said Mrs. Masters. "I'm told that his lordship offered him seven-and-six an acre for the whole of the two fields," said the gentleman-farmer.
My father was a yeoman an independent, or, as he was sometimes styled, a gentleman-farmer. Unfortunately, he was a man of too much ambition for his class.
"Gabriel." said she, " will you move again, please, and let Mr. Boldwood come there?" Oak moved in silence back to his original seat. The gentleman-farmer was dressed in cheerful style, in a new coat and white waistcoat, quite contrasting with his usual sober suits of grey. Inwardy, too, he was blithe, and consequently chatty to an exceptional degree.
Martin may be the richest of the two, but he is undoubtedly her inferior as to rank in society. The sphere in which she moves is much above his. It would be a degradation." "A degradation to illegitimacy and ignorance, to be married to a respectable, intelligent gentleman-farmer!"
Reginald Morton as though his death had been a sore loss to the neighbourhood. And there were in the country round sundry yeomen, as they ought to be called, gentlemen-farmers as they now like to style themselves, men who owned some acres of land, and farmed these acres themselves. Of these we may specially mention Mr. Lawrence Twentyman, who was quite the gentleman-farmer.
''Tis her very own person's settled upon the hairs of her head for ever. 'O nation! Then if I were the man I shouldn't care for such a one-eyed benefit as that, said Dairyman Jinks, turning away to listen to the talk on his other hand. 'Is that true? asked the gentleman-farmer in broadcloth. 'It is sufficiently near the truth, said Havill.
JOHNSON. 'Whoever would do as Campbell did, deserves to be hanged; not that I could, as a juryman, have found him legally guilty of murder; but I am glad they found means to convict him. The gentleman-farmer said, 'A poor man has as much honour as a rich man; and Campbell had THAT to defend. Johnson exclaimed, 'A poor man has no honour. The English yeoman, not dismayed, proceeded: 'Lord Eglintoune was a damned fool to run on upon Campbell, after being warned that Campbell would shoot him if he did. Johnson, who could not bear any thing like swearing, angrily replied, 'He was NOT a DAMNED fool: he only thought too well of Campbell.
"Bought her!" exclaimed the father; "an' how, in God's name, do you expect to pay for her?" "By an order on a very excellent, worthy man and gentleman-farmer ycleped James Burke, Esquire who has the honor of being father to that ornament of the barony, Hycy Burke, the accomplished. My worthy sire will fork out." "If I do, that I may "
At once Valmai recognised the voice, and peeping through the greenery, saw it was Cardo, stalwart and strong, with his rough freize coat and buttoned gaiters, looking every inch a gentleman-farmer.
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