Diana Tempest, Volume III by Mary Cholmondeley

"A funeral morn is lit in heaven's hollow, And pale the star-lights follow. " CHRISTINA ROSSETTI.

Towards nine o'clock in the evening carriage after carriage began to drive up to Overleigh in the moonlight. When Di came down, the white stone hall and the music-room were already crowded with guests, among whom she recognized Lord Hemsworth, Mr. Lumley, and Miss Crupps, who had been staying at houses in the neighbourhood for the hunt ball the night before, and had come on with their respective parties, to the not unmixed gratification of John.