country gentleman

A penniless young aristocrat determined to maintain the contemplative life of a country gentleman must, suddenly, get a job.

If he had been permitted to settle down in England as he wished, as a country gentleman, would this have satisfied him?

The life within is the ideally tranquil existence of an English country gentleman.

If I was once settled down, I could live as well on fifteen hundred a year as any country gentleman in Ireland.

Who would call Webster the meanest of mankind because he had an absurd desire to live like an English country gentleman?

He seemed to me the beau ideal of a country gentleman: nothing less than this, and something more.