The strands of hair escaping from the hood showed pure gold in the sunshine, and in the same sunshine the blue of her eyes seemed deeper than ever.
John was often impressed by the weakness of generalities, and one of them was the fact that so many of the French were so fair, and so many of the English so dark.

He did not remember the origin of the Lannes family, but he was sure that through her mother's line, at least, she must be largely of Norman blood.
"What are you thinking of so gravely, Mr.Scott ?" she asked, still in English, to the deep dissatisfaction of Suzanne, who never relaxed her grim glare.
"I don't know.

Perhaps it was the contrast of our peaceful journey to what is going on twelve or fifteen miles away." "It is beautiful here!" she said.
Truly it was.

The road, smooth and white, ran along the slopes of hills, crested with open forest, yet fresh and green.

Below them were fields of chequered brown and green.