Illustration] Extracts from the Character of a Country Gentleman.
He died about five years after he had begun his career as a country gentleman, leaving a widow and two daughters in Ireland; a son at school at Eton; and an expensive lawsuit, with numerous ramifications, all unsettled.
You'd do very well as a country gentleman, and you'd make a decent nobleman with such a fortune as Lord Cashel's.
When he felt himself to be a lord, he could not be content with the simple life of a country gentleman; or, at any rate, without taking the lead in the country.
Sir Willoughby, on succeeding to the baronetcy, devoted himself to the pursuits and duties of a country gentleman.
As a magistrate, country gentleman, and landlord, Sir William was highly esteemed.
The eldest son of Mr. Anthony Hamond, he was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered upon the duties and pursuits of a country gentleman.
Had the Estates General never been summoned, had the Revolution never taken place, he would probably have passed his life as a country gentleman, often discontented with the Government of the country but entirely without influence.
He possibly thought that it was better to have a good and grateful daughter in a country gentleman's wife, than a sullen and thankless one in a duchess.
This villa is all very well--my country house is not amiss for a country gentleman--but now we must support our rank.
I am a Country Gentleman of between five and six thousand a Year.
He, the younger son of a working parish parson, has had everything that could be given to the eldest son of a country gentleman,--more than is given to the eldest son of many a peer.
Nor, in the ordinary attributes of a country gentleman, was the master of Hale Castle behind his compeers.
He will be a country gentleman, and may distinguish himself in the House of Commons.
They went into the drawing-room, and Mr. Fairfax dawdled an hour away talking of Lyvedon, and giving a serio-comic description of himself in the novel character of a country gentleman.
He resolved, therefore, to place himself upon the footing of a country gentleman of easy fortune, without assuming, or permitting his household to assume, any of the faste which then was considered as characteristic of a nabob.
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