[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER XI 10/15
It deepened; shy neither smiled nor rattled any more.
She gazed across the hedgeways at the white meadows and bare-twigged copses showing their last leaves in the frost. 'I remember your words: "Observation is the most, enduring of the pleasures of life"; and so I have found it,' she said.
There was a brightness along her under-eyelids that caused him to look away. The expected catastrophe occurred on the descent of a cutting in the sand, where their cordial postillion at a trot bumped the chariot against the sturdy wheels of a waggon, which sent it reclining for support upon a beech-tree's huge intertwisted serpent roots, amid strips of brown bracken and pendant weeds, while he exhibited one short stump of leg, all boot, in air.
No one was hurt.
Diana disengaged herself from the shoulder of Danvers, and mildly said: 'That reminds me, I forgot to ask why we came in a chariot.' Redworth was excited on her behalf, but the broken glass had done no damage, nor had Danvers fainted.
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