She dressed in the very extreme and front of fashion--the squire himself quite plainly, without the least pretence of dandyism.

Hateful as the village folk thought her _hauteur_ and open contempt for them, they said she was more the lady than the squire was the gentleman.
The squire's time, when at home, like everything else, was peddled away.
He rode into market one day of the week; he went to church on Sundays with unfailing regularity, and he generally attended the petty sessional bench on a third day.

Upon the bench, from the long standing of his family, he occupied a prominent position.

His mind invariably seized the minutiae of the evidence, and never seemed to see the point or the broad bearings of the case.

He would utterly confuse a truthful witness, for instance, who chanced to say that he met the defendant in the road.