The clatter of horses' feet.

The roll of wheels.

Huntercombe gates flung wide open by a cluster of grooms and keepers.
Then on came two outriders, ushered by loud hurrahs, and followed by a carriage and four that dashed through the village amid peals of delight from the villagers.

The carriage was open, and in it sat Sir Charles and Bella Bassett.

She was lovelier than ever; she dazzled the very air with her beauty and her glorious hair.