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The eight men took the burden upon their shoulders, and slowly crossed with it over to the gate. Knight and Stephen went outside, and came close to the procession as it moved off. A carriage belonging to the cortege turned round close to a lamp. The rays shone in upon the face of the vicar of Endelstow, Mr. Swancourt looking many years older than when they had last seen him.
She had probably never been so handsome from the painter's point of view, though one could not imagine a young man falling in love with her now. Her personality was first definitely noted by the Bruxellois the day that von Bissing's funeral cortège passed through the streets of Brussels on its way to Germany.
A second funeral pall was held by six coiffeurs of the corporation to which Jasmin had belonged. Behind the hearse were the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine, the Sisters of Saint-Vincent de Paul, and the Little Sisters of the Poor. The mourners were headed by the poet's son and the other members of his family. The cortege was very numerous, including the elite of the population.
Then the procession of the captives through the crowded streets laden with what a short time before had been their own property a mournful cortège of men doomed to an everlasting slavery and of women destined for the harems of the Bashas.
His great round eye watched Gwynplaine with the fixedness of an owl's. He walked with a cadence. Never did honest man look fiercer. Ursus, for a moment thrown out of his way in the tangled skein of streets, overtook, close to Saint Mary Overy, the cortège, which had fortunately been retarded in the churchyard by a fight between children and dogs a common incident in the streets in those days.
It was arranged that the cortege should return to Springfield over as nearly as possible the same route as that taken by the President in 1861, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, Albany, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Chicago. In the party there were three of those who had escorted him to Washington, David Davis, W. H. Lamon, and General Hunter.
Custom and tradition continue them in force, antiquity hallows them. It is thought that in ancient times in Persia the dog was a sacred animal and could guide souls to heaven; also that his eye had the power of purifying objects which had been contaminated by the touch of the dead; and that hence his presence with the funeral cortege provides an ever-applicable remedy in case of need.
The cortege proceeded; and Delme, giddy and confused, heard solemn words spoken over his affianced one, and he waited, till even the coffin could he discerned no more. Thompson, who had followed his master, assisted him into his carriage, placed himself beside him, and ordered the driver to proceed to the hotel.
There was earnestness enough, no doubt, in the wish for healing, but there was no insight into His message. Any travelling European with a medicine chest can get the same kind of cortege round his tent.
They wanted me to take a costume of a Spanish lady in the cortege of Europe, but I refused; if I could not be in the American I did not want to be in any of the others. Taking part in the cortege meant waiting till midnight before appearing, and then, being in it, you did not see it.
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