land agent

Before we were clear of Alcester, Budd the land-agent came up.

The land-agent is the commanding officer, his office is a garrison, dominating the surrounding district.

Now Mr Fothergill was the duke's land-agent, and he it was who had greeted Frank and his friends at their entrance.

He was a land-agent or something like that, and all very fine to your face, to promise and to pretend—just make-believe.