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She would sit beside him quite still and sew. She could see plainly that the end was only a little way off. Gerhardt, true to his nature, took into consideration all the various arrangements contingent upon his death. He wished to be buried in the little Lutheran cemetery, which was several miles farther out on the South Side, and he wanted the beloved minister of his church to officiate.
"It was your fancy." "At night they only ring in the cemetery," says Andrey. "And what do they ring there for?" "To prevent robbers from breaking into the church. They are afraid of the bells." "And what do robbers break into the church for?" asks Sonya. "Everyone knows what for: to kill the watchmen." A minute passes in silence. They all look at one another, shudder, and go on playing.
From the water clock we visited the ancient "City of the Dead," a small cemetery just outside one of the old city gates. These gates, some of which are large and imposing, pierce the dilapidated wall at intervals. The wall, about six miles in circumference, is surrounded by the remains of a moat, now chiefly useful as an addition to the picturesque landscape and as a breeding place for mosquitoes.
The body was to be taken from Sandsgaard and laid in the church, where Dean Sparre was to deliver a discourse, while the chaplain was to conduct the funeral service at the cemetery. All the different guilds were to follow with their banners, and the town band was busy practising till late at night. Jacob Worse did not take any part in all this.
"You'll not go this time without a gun, Jack," she said with a ghost of a smile. "No. I want to make good this trip." "You did splendidly before. Not one man in a hundred would have done so well." "I'm a wonder," he admitted with a grin. "But you will take care of yourself not be foolish." "I don't aim to take up residence in Boot Hill cemetery if I can help it."
Something in the ceremony of these melancholy journeys had struck Job's fancy and impressed the circumstances on his memory to such an extent that, ever after, he was reluctant to pass the cemetery gate, but tugged hard at the lines to show his desire to enter. It was not so bad when Mrs. Adams and Polly were by themselves; but Mrs.
Think of the people who go to the market for food: during the day they eat; at night they sleep, talk nonsense, marry, grow old, piously follow their dead to the cemetery; one never sees or hears those who suffer, and all the horror of life goes on somewhere behind the scenes.
It was a monument almost in ruins, a monastery suggesting melodrama, gloomy and mysterious, in the cloisters of which camped vagabonds and beggars. To enter it one must cross the old cemetery of the friars with its graves disturbed by the roots of forest trees thrusting bones up to the very surface.
In the meantime, in the hope of avoiding a recurrence of so distressing a calamity, the colonists ploughed over the whole surface of their cemetery, and sowed it with corn; thus concealing what was to them so sacred from the eyes of their wild and ruthless foes.
The town is situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea and the Malar lake. These two waters are connected by a short canal, on whose shores the most delightful houses are erected. My first visit was to the beautiful church of Ritterholm, which is used more for a cemetery and an armory than for a place of worship.
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