By some he was called 'a
country gentleman of the true school,' by some 'a fine old
country gentleman,' by some
But he (he knew very well how he must appear to others) was a
country gentleman, occupied in breeding cattle, shooting game, and building barns; in other words, a fellow of no ability, who had not turned out well, and who was doing just what, according to the ideas of the world, is done by people fit for nothing else.
He would show the Loamshire people what a fine
country gentleman was; he would not exchange that career for any other under the sun.
You know, dear D'Artagnan, I am nothing more than a good honest
country gentleman. Raoul has no fortune other than I possess, poor child!
The one was a well-to- do
country gentleman, the other a beautiful and accomplished woman to whom he was passionately attached with what I now know to have been a jealous and exacting devotion.
Prince Andrew arrived at Bennigsen's quarters- a
country gentleman's house of moderate size, situated on the very banks of the river.
The peasant stood amazed at hearing such nonsense, and relieving him of the visor, already battered to pieces by blows, he wiped his face, which was covered with dust, and as soon as he had done so he recognised him and said, "Senor Quixada" (for so he appears to have been called when he was in his senses and had not yet changed from a quiet
country gentleman into a knight-errant), "who has brought your worship to this pass?" But to all questions the other only went on with his ballad.
As to the circumstances, there is reasonable plausibility in the later tradition that he had joined in poaching raids on the deer-park of Sir Thomas Lucy, a neighboring
country gentleman, and found it desirable to get beyond the bounds of that gentleman's authority.
('Now,' thought Mr Boffin, 'if he proposes a game at skittles, or meets a
country gentleman just come into property, or produces any article of jewellery he has found, I'll knock him down!' With this discreet reflection, and carrying his stick in his arms much as Punch carries his, Mr Boffin turned into Clifford's Inn aforesaid.)
Here he put off the gown and wig of a barrister, and played the part of a
country gentleman. He rode about accompanied by his children and his friends, and followed by his dogs.
After remaining ten years Attache (several years after the lamented Lord Binkie's demise), and finding the advancement slow, he at length gave up the diplomatic service in some disgust, and began to turn
country gentleman.
I am with my mother, beginning my career as a
country gentleman on the estate in Perthshire which I have inherited from Mr.