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"What I am? why, wha should I be but Ringan Aikwood, the Knockwinnock poinder? and what are ye doing here at this time o' night, unless ye were come to attend the leddy's burial?" "I do declare to you, mine goot Poinder Aikwood," said the German, raising himself up, "that I have been this vary nights murdered, robbed, and put in fears of my life."
The young gentleman, who really believed the story of Turchi's servant, thanked him for his assistance, and acknowledged that he owed his life to him, as he had given the warning of the approach of the assassins. The dead body was removed behind the well until the city authorities should order its burial. The head watchman approached Geronimo, and said to him: "Where do you live, signor?
He himself clung to the side for a moment when it was upside down in the water, so that everything on board, which was not secured, must have gone to the bottom." So it was. Standing beside the home of her married life, she had witnessed her husband's burial.
And, as we can make him guide us to the place, I propose we go there, get the remains of our old comrade, and give them Christian burial." With the Texan Rangers obedience to duty is less a thing of command than request; and this is a request of such nature as to receive instant and unanimous assent "Let us go!" is the universal response. "We needn't all make this journey," continues the captain.
The old grammar which he had studied in the University of Glasgow was soon in my hands, and the Greek article was learned before breakfast. Then came the sad pageantry of death, the weeping of friends, the dark rooms, the ghostly stillness, the exhortation to the living to prepare for death, the solemn prayer, the mournful chant, the funeral cortège, the solemn, tolling bell, the burial.
If you have any commission or message for your mother, Mr. Monday, I shall have great satisfaction in attending to your wishes." "I thank you, sir; I know of none. She has her notions on religion, and I think it would lessen her sorrow to hear that I had a Christian burial." "Set your heart at rest on that subject: all that our situation will allow, shall be done."
The effect, by the way, becoming upon the instant rather incongruous, as the writer of this very well remembers, when, through a sudden and jarring recollection of what the occasion was that had brought us all together, the Reader began, with a serio-comic inflection, "Marley was dead: to begin with. There's no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed."
Then he turned to the body of his brother and made it ready for burial as best he might, closing the eyes, tying up the chin with a band of twisted grass, and folding the thin toil-worn hands upon the quiet heart. When all was finished he paused from his dreadful task, and a thought struck him.
They gave him a magnificent burial, and then the prince had to examine the new laws which had been made in his absence, and do a great deal of business besides, till he grew quite ill from fatigue, and was obliged to go away to one of his palaces on the banks of the river, in order to rest.
You are down now! shouted one of the conspirators, as they despoiled his remains, which were left on the prairie, naked and without burial, to be devoured by wild beasts. "Such was the end of this daring adventurer.
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