The little town, we have seen, was overcrowded with late
summer visitors, all eager for the sea yet compelled
To waste
so much precious time shut up in apartments, and at every
appearance of a slight improvement in the weather they would
pour out of the houses and the green slope would be covered
with a crowd of many hundreds, all hurrying down to the beach.
The crowd was composed mostly of women - about three to every
man, I should say - and their children; and it was one of the
most interesting crowds I had ever come across on account of
the large number of persons in it of a peculiarly fine type,
which chance had brought together at that spot. It was the
large English blonde, and there were so many individuals of
this type that they gave a character to the crowd so that
those of a different physique and colour appeared to be fewer
than they were and were almost overlooked. They came from
various places about the country, in the north and the
Midlands, and appeared to be of the well-to-do classes; they,
or many of them, were with their families but without their
lords. They were mostly tall and large in every way, very
white-skinned, with light or golden hair and large light blue
eyes. A common character of these women was their quiet
reposeful manner; they walked and talked and rose up and sat
down and did everything, in fact, with an air of deliberation;
they gazed in a slow steady way at you, and were dignified,
some even majestic, and were like a herd of large beautiful
white cows.
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