gentlemen-squires

Updated: July 20, 2025

But now, as he has bowed off the chaplain to his study, and excused himself from aiding his two gentlemen-squires in consuming their krug of beer, and hands his mother to her favourite nook in the sunny window, taking his seat by her side, his features assume an expression of repose and relaxation as if here indeed were his true home.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Dove in the Eagle's Nest