Millcote, - shire; I brushed up my recollections of the map of England, yes, I saw it; both the shire and the town.

Thanks to compact organization, they were loosening the bonds of their dependence on the lords or bishops to whom most of them paid taxes; and the alliance of their representatives with the knights of the shire (country gentlemen) in the House of Commons, now a separate division of Parliament, was laying the foundation of the political power of the whole middle class.

and no lady within the shire can be quicker in arraying herself than my mistress.