His daughter made her graceful adieux in her clear, low, and singularly sweet voice, and together they were swallowed up of the mammoth coach.

Mr.Haward took snuff with Mr.
Jaquelin; then, mounting his horse,--it was supposed that he too had business in Williamsburgh,--raised his hat and bade farewell to the company with one low and comprehensive bow.
The equipage made a wide turn; the ladies and gentlemen upon the Jaquelin porch fluttered fans and handkerchiefs; the Colonel, leaning from the coach window, waved his hand; and the horseman lifted his hat the second time.

The very especial guests were gone; and though the remainder of the afternoon was as merry as heart could wish, yet a bouquet, a flavor, a tang of the Court and the great world, a breath of air that was not colonial, had gone with them.

For a moment the women stood in a brown study, revolving in their minds Mistress Evelyn's gypsy hat and the exceeding thinness and fineness of her tucker; while to each of the younger men came, linked to the memory of a charming face, a vision of many-acred Westover.
But the trumpet blew, summoning them to the sport of the afternoon, and work stopped upon castles in Spain.

When a horse-race was on, a meadow in Virginia sufficed..