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He had been christened Edmund, and he was a squireen of the Tipperary village of Knockbrit.

The letter was handed to the bench, and the chairman, looking doubtfully at his colleagues, requested our squireen to withdraw while his application was considered.

The squireen's familiar manner of mentioning Doreen had stung her cousin, and filled him with a desire to warn her of the oaf's presumption.

She, as chatelaines ought to be, was delighted to have a host of philanderers hanging about the Abbey, swilling its liquor, devouring its beef, while my lord deigned to make the squireen useful in a multitude of ways.

What would be more likely to stimulate a coarse illiterate squireen than the aspect of such a living paradox as this?