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Hennon's?" asked Saul meditatively, "But anyway, the Englishman wouldn't like to take in a coffin." "They pass some time in the night; and he must take it in if you write on it where it's going. It's not his business to say what the cars will take, if you pay." "Well," said Saul. "Good-day. Yo-hoist! Yo, yo, ho-hoist!"
Alone with the coffin where the armour lay upon the white cross, Ebbo threw himself on his knees, and laid his head upon it, murmuring, "Ah, Friedel! Friedel! Would that we had changed places! Thou wouldst brook it better. At least thou didst never know what it is to be lonely." "Herr Baron!" said a little voice. His first movement was impatient.
With that he caught up the letter, and made a dart up the wooden staircase, which led straight from a corner of the room through a square hole in the ceiling to his upper chamber. "Money again!" said Captain Coffin, turning his eyes upon me and blinking. "Nothing like money!"
"I'm awfully glad of that." "But it's impossible. Uncle respects and is fond of Aunt Keziah, but he wouldn't hear of my visiting the parsonage." "But don't you think your uncle might be persuaded? I'm sure he misunderstands me, just as I should him if it weren't for Mrs. Coffin and what you've said. Don't you think if I called on him and he knew me better it might help matters? I'll do it gladly.
She had rallied at his coming, had lingered some sad years an invalid in the great room next the parlour, and had died quietly at last as she knelt in prayer beside her high white bed. For days after this the empty house was like a coffin. The children ran in tears through the shuttered rooms, and the servants lost their lingering shred of discipline.
He threw away his cigarette, and came across the room to her, and his hands fell heavily upon her shoulders. "Look here, Fatalité," he said roughly; "we thought you were dying a little while ago, and I helped to fight for your life, and all the time, at the back of my brain I wished you were dead. Yes, you needn't look so horrified." He gave her a fierce shake. "I hoped to see you in your coffin.
It is fairly legible throughout; and the sense is, for the most part, fairly well ascertained, though the meaning of some passages remains still more or less doubtful. The following is the translation of M. Renan: I am lying in this coffin, and in this tomb, in the place which I have built.
She had remained a long time in the silent hall, where she had garlanded the coffin with flowers, kissed it, talked to the dead man as if he were still alive, and told him that the day had come when what he had mentioned in his will as the warmest desire of his heart to rest beside her in the same tomb would be fulfilled.
'Now I don't care if I go to the devil, he said, raked some straw into a corner and was asleep within a few minutes. It was afternoon when he was at last awakened by old Sobieska. 'Get up, Slimak! your wife is dead! God's faith! dead as a stone. 'How can I help it? said the peasant, turning over and drawing his sheepskin over his head. 'But you must buy a coffin and notify the parish.
In a good many places in Germany a similar process is gone through to cure lumbago. Indra, the god of Thunder among the Hindoos, drew a sick man thrice through a hole, and thereby gave him health and new birth. From passing under the earth the custom passed to going through a split tree, the tree representing the coffin. An interesting account of this usage will be found in White's "Selborne."
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