But, to be sure, the present squire won't take after him there.

The present squire is away.

But the present squire had stepped outside the shadows of the past, and Stephen was fully abreast of his own times.

And you're the present Squire of Maxfield?

"And is the present squire like his father?"

"I suppose you know Fred Mostyn has a mortgage on it that the present Squire is unable to lift."