He was a squyer of lowe degre
Will Ladislaw's mind was now wholly bent on seeing Dorothea again, and forthwith quitting Middlemarch.
Ladislaw felt the awkwardness of asking for more last words. It is certainly trying to a man's dignity to reappear when he is not expected to do so: a first farewell has pathos in it, but to come back for a second lends an opening to comedy