The whimsy creatures we are matched to contrast with, shift as the very winds or feather-grasses in the wind.

Possibly a fine day did it.

Possibly, too, her not being requested to do it.
He was proud of her bearing on horseback.

She rode well and looked well.
A finer weapon wherewith to strike at a churlish world was never given into the hands of man.

These English may see in her, if they like, that they and their laws and customs are defied.