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The greatest man in Raveloe was Squire1 Cass, who lived in the large red house with the handsome flight of stone steps in front and the high stables behind it, nearly opposite the church. He was only one among several landed parishioners, but he alone was honoured with the title of Squire; for though Mr. Osgood's family was also understood to be of timeless origin—the Raveloe imagination having never ventured back to that fearful blank when there were no Osgoods—still, he merely owned the farm he occupied; whereas Squire Cass had a tenant2 or two, who complained of the game to him quite as if he had been a lord.
It was still that glorious war-time which was felt to be a peculiar3 favour of Providence4 towards the landed interest, and the fall of prices had not yet come to carry the race of small squires5 and yeomen down that road to ruin for which extravagant6 habits and bad husbandry were plentifully7 anointing their wheels. I am speaking now in relation to Raveloe and the parishes that resembled it; for our old-fashioned country life had many different aspects, as all life must have when it is spread over a various surface, and breathed on variously by multitudinous currents, from the winds of heaven to the thoughts of men, which are for ever moving and crossing each other with incalculable results. Raveloe lay low among the bushy trees and the rutted lanes, aloof8 from the currents of industrial energy and Puritan earnestness: the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families, and the poor thought that the rich were entirely9 in the right of it to lead a jolly life; besides, their feasting caused a
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concession
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resentment
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