He was detected in giving free passes to slaves and brought to trial before Squire Maxey.
It was hastily arranged that Humfrey should ride off at once, and try to overtake a squire who had been at the festival, and had invited him to turn a little out of his road and spend a day or two at his house when leaving home.
The two knotted old hands clasped the arms of the chair, and the squire prepared to rise, his lip trembling under his white beard, and emotion working in his dejected features.
I did but take my ride this way to ask how it fared with the mistress, and try if I could shake the squire from his lethargy, if Mrs. Susan had not had the grace yet to be here.
She even wished that she would marry--not one of the subalterns, for they were not her sort, but some decent small squire or parson.
There could be no question of her leaving her house for his--he was only a little clerk earning two pounds a week, and she was Squire of the Manor.
Miss Godden, she might impart them to us," said theSquire from a little farther down.
Ellen's position as Squire Joanna Godden's sister was much better than if she were living by herself in some small place on a small income.
He doesn't look as if a London doctor had threatened him with consumption," said the Squire banteringly.
Reckon she thinks the old Squire ud like to marry her," said Alce, "I'd be glad if I thought so well of him.
After some ten days of anxiety, self-consciousness, shame and exasperation, these suspicions were confirmed by a letter from the Squire himself.
Both the Old Squire and his sister were obviously interested in Ellen Alce--he in the naïve unguarded way of the male, she more subtly and not without a dash of patronage.
It was the first time that the Squirehad been to the Farmers' Club Dinner.
People thought it odd that the Old Squire should send pearls to Ellen Godden--something for the table would have been much more seemly.
She was surprised at the kiss, for he had never kissed her before, though the Squire had taken full advantage of their relationship--she had supposed it wasn't right for Jesoots.
It is true the Squire can afford to have always a grand dinner to sit down to; but of what use is that when he is, and has been for years, in such a bad state of health that the choicest dainties afford him no pleasure!
I should like to be as rich as our Squire best; but it would do to be as rich as Farmer Tomkyns.
She acknowledged the presence of the Committee with an obeisance, then went quickly to the squire and clapped him on the shoulder, comrade fashion.
Escorted by a squire this Committee went to interview Jeanne at Robateau's house, for she was not formally examined before the whole board of Doctors.
The Squire d'Aulon, her brothers, the two knights, and her pages were lodged in the same house.
On Sunday, therefore, with Jeanne's squire D'Aulon, he set forth.
The squire looked about him in bewilderment, for there were not more than five men of her Household near her, yet there she stood waving her standard while the arrows and bolts from the town rained and whistled about her.
I will be your squire for the nonce, and unbuckle your armour.
The squire was delighted, and promised all she asked; but the moment he had run off to announce his success to the King, the false waiting-woman went and told the Queen all that had passed.
Standing by his side, the squire who had been longest in the castle, the only one who in those moods of black despondency could have ventured to intrude without drawing down upon his head an explosion of wrath, was speaking to him.
And my lord will be silent for shame, and his pages and his fools will say in mocking tone: ‘The Count’s squire is only a gallant of the jousts, a warrior in the game of courtesy.
But Mrs. Spear could not tell where the festival was to be, as she had not heard; perhaps they might know at Squire Ramsay's.
The squire is a sly one," said the menagerie manager.
But now he was better, and one day started west to earn the money the squire of Hopsville had promised him.
By the light the squiregot a good look at the would-be burglar.
Moving back to his desk the squire secured his pistol and also a club.
Mr. Dunbar's property had been very much involved, and Squire Dobb, the most rascally lawyer in Hopsville, had taken the matter in charge.
He was afraid if he told Squire Dobb what Leo could really do that the miserly lawyer would want money for the release.
To-morrow, if all goes right, I am going to take a train for Hopsville and see Squire Dobb," said Barton Reeve to Leo.
I wish you could get Squire Dobb to make a settlement of my parents' estate," went on Leo earnestly.
There had been several robberies in Hopsville lately, so the squire was certain the burglar had now come to his house.
Both Squire Dobb and old Hawkins were much astonished at the unexpected appearance.
The squirefollowed him, still, however, keeping his pistol ready for use.
I'll go to this Squire Dobb and get him to release you in a lawful way.
I am anxious to let Squire Dobb know what I think of him.
As Squire Dobb spoke, the would-be burglar turned swiftly.
He was as finely dressed as youngSquire Flaggimore himself.
And he is right; it has a very pleasant look-out for miles and miles on three sides of it; the fourth is closed by the shoulder of the hill, and the woods and plantations of old Squire Flaggimore.
Why, granny, they live in a finer house than Squire Flaggimore, keep a fine carriage, and their children are finer gentlemen and ladies than the Flaggimores by half.
The clergyman and Squire Flaggimore invited him to dine with them, and were greatly entertained with his account of foreign countries.
The stanza which the facetious old squire sang before Dr.
When thirteen years had elapsed from this time, the emperor proclaimed a great feast, to which, among others, the earl was invited, who carried the boy with him as a squire to attend his person.
But Mrs. Spear could not tell where the festival was to be, as she had not heard; perhaps they might know at Squire Ramsay’s.
Squire Ramsay’s was on their way to Grandfather’s, so they stopped there.
Well, I went to Squire Fields, and I had a long talk with Sylvia.
Right there old Squire Buck Throckmorton objected to the selection of Mr. Wash Burnett.
Well, suzz, that argument fetched us and we all coincided; all but Squire Buck Throckmorton, who still looked mighty dubiousome.
He called out a good morning and waved his stick in greeting toward the squire with a gesture which he endeavored to make natural.
Maybe he was kinder jealous at seeing old Squire Buck Throckmorton setting hisse'f up as a jedge of human nature that-a-way.
He had read arightSquire Jonas' stupefaction, the watchmaker's ludicrous alarm.
Near as I can recall here's what Squire says: "'You all air suttenly fixing to make a monstrous big mistake.
In all respects save one, Squire Jonas, telling the inquiring stranger the tale, had the rights of it.
Replying to his venerable friend and neighbor, he would say that the Squire was talking like a plain derned fool.
This lady was suffering from violence, having been "rapt by greedie Lust," and the gentle squire himself had partaken of the mischance, in encountering that savage.
One of his most felicitous conjectures regards "the gentle squire Timias" as the poet's honoured friend, Sir Walter Rawleigh.
Never surely did our conjecturer shoot wider of the mark than when he discovered in the two burlesque characters of the poltroon Braggadochio and his cheating squire Trompart, the Duke of Anjou and his envoy Simier.
A battle ensued of as valiant a character as any recorded in the pages of history; for there was neither knight nor squire but what did his devoir and fought hand to hand.
The growth of grammar-schools realized the dream of Sir Thomas More, and brought the middle-classes, from the squire to the petty tradesman, into contact with the masters of Greece and Rome.
The Puritan squire "left off very early the wearing of anything that was costly, yet in his plainest negligent habit appeared very much a gentleman.
Our first glimpse of Oliver Cromwell is as a young country squire and farmer in the marsh-levels around Huntingdon and St. Ives, buried from time to time in a deep melancholy, and haunted by fancies of coming death.
Serious as was his temper in graver matters, the young squire of Owthorpe was fond of hawking, and piqued himself on his skill in dancing and fence.
No English ruler has ever shown greater nobleness of natural temper or a wider capacity for government than the Somersetshire squire whom his enemies, made clear-sighted by their hate, greeted truly enough as "King Pym.
The "Salle du Roi" would have been taken if a Flemish squire of Robert of Namur, named Hannequin, had not performed a great feat of arms.
At the same time, the Horsham solicitor participated in his youthful client's animosity against the Squire of Field Place, who had on a recent occasion treated him with insolence, if not with personal violence.
He had, moreover, made up his mind to draw his young kinsman into his hands, both for the sake of making money out of him, and in order to annoy the Squire of Field Place and old Sir Bysshe, whom he did not love.
Something had probably come to the Squire about that ugly business in Lynton.
Yet the evidence is certain that the kindly Squire of Field Place never entertained any such design against the boy, whose consent would be needful on his coming of age to the resettlement of the family estates A and B.
I, to young squire O'Sullivan, from Scullanabogue, whom good fortune threw in my way the very first day I was in London.
A bit of good advice that will not only benefit the squire if he attends to it, but perhaps save the lives of one or two of the Bath pedestrians.
Loveday's grandfather was the regular old-fashioned sporting kind of squire you read about in books.
As the Squire did when we got home (in a white heat) and told him: and he called us a couple of poltroons.
Johnny, there's something on my mind," said the Squire in a low tone as we were going back towards home: and he was looking grave and silent as a judge.
Caromel does not like talking of her: I can see that, Johnny," remarked theSquire to me later.
The Squire went to it: when a man was dead, he thought animosity should cease.
They did it without the consent of (as the Squire had put it) pastors and masters.
His spirits were low; the Squire remarked one day that he was like a man who had some inward care upon him.
The Squire and Tod started for it after an early breakfast, and they let me go part of the way with them.
The Squire had called her a brazen hussy behind her back; he had much ado this morning not to call her so to her face.
As honourable a letter in its way as you could wish to hear read," observed Tod; for Sir John and the Squire had read it aloud between them for the benefit of the dining-room.
One day during the week the Squiremet them abroad, and gave an impromptu invitation to the Manor for the evening.
The Squire declined for himself, though Sir John had wanted him also.
Mr. Brandon and the Squire were staying in London at the Tavistock Hotel.
The Squirehanded me his gun and was turning to walk on, opening his letter as he did so; when Pettipher spoke and arrested him.
Miss Cattledon and the mater were pacing the dell below, and Miss Deveen sat talking with the Squire and Sir John.
This heard the 'Squire with mix'd contempt and pain; He fear'd the Priest this recreant sot would gain.
It was thesquire who blew the trumpet, through the bars of his helmet; the knight's visor was completely down.
The young squire still rides his charger, armed with lance and pistol, but he is no longer eager to obtain fame and booty in war.
The squire interests himself in politics; he distrusts Sweden, and abhors the regicide tendencies of England, but admires everything French, and whosoever can give him news of Paris is a welcome guest.
The Squire was in such pain that he was obliged to recline upon his horse, and Tupcombe was afraid every moment lest he would fall into the road.
It was too plain to her anxious mother that Squire Dornell's free views had been a sort of awakening to the girl.
They had already seen each other, and the Squire fancied that he noticed a tenderness on the youth's part which promised well.
He had just returned from London, and the Squire was anxious to talk to him--for no definite reason; but he had lately breathed the atmosphere in which Betty was.
The distance traversed might have been about fifteen miles when Tupcombe could perceive that the Squire was getting tired--as weary as he would have been after riding three times the distance ten years before.
Reynard immediately said that he would be the last to wish to injure Squire Dornell, and left the room, and as soon as the Squire had recovered breath and equanimity, he went out of the inn, leaning on the arm of Tupcombe.
What the Squire really did was to declare that he would go himself and confront Reynard at Bristol, and have it out with him there by word of mouth.
The Squire was sinking, and his extreme weakness had almost changed his character, except in the particular that his old obstinacy sustained him in a refusal to see a clergyman.
Squire Dornell wondered if, in going or returning, it had been her plan to call at the Reynards' place near Melchester, through which city their journey lay.
