Chapter 16: In Which the Bride from Foreign Parts Is Given a Taste of Old England

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌⁠Cheers at an open gate of a field saluted the familiar scarlet of the Earl of Fleetwood’s coach in Kentish land. They were chorister cheers, the spontaneous ringing out of English country hearts in homage to the nobleman who brightened the heaviness of life on English land with a spectacle of the noble art distinguishing their fathers. He drove along over muffling turf; ploughboys and blue butcher