They spend as much in a week as the squire do in a month, and don't cheapen nothing, and your cheque just whenever you like to ask for it.

That's what I calls gentlefolks.' For till and counter gauge long descent, and heraldic quarterings, and ancestral Crusaders, far below the chink of ready money, that synonym for all the virtues.
The Grange people, indeed, are so conspicuous, that there is little secrecy about them or their affairs.

The house they reside in--it cannot be called a farmstead--is a large villa-like mansion of recent erection, and fitted with every modern convenience.

The real farmstead which it supplanted lies in a hollow at some distance, and is occupied by the head bailiff, for there are several employed.

As the architecture of the villa is consonant with modern 'taste,' so too the inferior is furnished in the 'best style,' of course under the supervision of the mistress.