Word: pheasants
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...pats her "with a hand not so much caressing as appraising. She raised her heavy red eyebrows to the lace edging of her cap and commented with an arch grin: 'A bonny body. Well covered but not too plump. Slender, but not skinny. Meg's too plump. Pheasant's skinny. You're just right for a bride. Eh, my dear, but if I was a young man I'd like to sleep with...
...Pheasant was the illegitimate daughter of Maurice Vaughan, whose proffer of matrimony Meg had refused when she learned about Pheasant. On the return of Eden & Alayne, Pheasant is married to Piers. Soon, in this crowded turmoil of brothers and sisters, men and wives," there are readjustments. Renny and Alayne fall in love with each other, likewise Pheasant and Eden...
Finch, passing through the dark woods one night, hears Pheasant and Eden together, goes to tell Piers. Then Pheasant runs away to her father's house, until Renny and Piers go to bring her back to Jalna. Eden, too, flees the cold forests and the scornful, narrow fields of his bitter home. Alayne plans to return to New York and her old work, where one hopes that Renny will be her companion. Meg, the peg that holds the last of the story together, stops shuddering at the sins of Maurice...
...much shorter event. Breaking no record he covered the 25-mile course in 1 hr., 57 min., 16 sec., evoked comment by using a team of Irish setters. The latter are said to have understood the term "Mush!" perfectly, to have behaved beautifully in the absence of quail, pheasant...
...which he deplored modern laxity in customs and dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were then invited to a family luncheon with His Holiness, at which the Pontiff sat at a separate table elevated above the rest of the party. The menu included galatine of pheasant, cakes with the papal colors, and Capri wine, both red and white, marsala, champagne and liqueurs...