Ferrier and Diana in front, with most of the other guests
of the house in their train. There was a merry fraternization between
the two parties--a characteristic English scene, in a characteristic
setting: the men in their tweed shooting-suits, some with their guns
over their shoulders, for the most part young and tall, clean-limbed and
clear-eyed, the well-to-do Englishman at his most English moment, and
brimming with the joy of life; the girls dressed in the same tweed
stuffs, and with the same skilled and expensive simplicity, but wearing,
some of them, over their cloth caps, bright veils, white or green or
blue, which were tied under their chins, and framed faces aglow with
exercise and health.
Marsham's eyes flew to Diana, who was in black, with a white veil. Some
of the natural curls on her temples, which reminded him of a Vandyck
picture, had been a little blown by the wind across her beautiful brow;
he liked the touch of wildness that they gave; and he was charmed anew
by the contrast between her frank young strength, and the wistful look,
so full of _relation_ to all about it, as though seeking to understand
and be one with it.
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