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Just so in ancient Rome a temple might be used for a meeting of the Senate or for funeral games. The Worship of the Reproductive Forces One aspect of Indian religions is so singular that it demands notice, although it is difficult to discuss. I mean the worship of the generative forces.
He sank to the ground, slipped his arm around the dog's neck, and sobbed aloud. He wrote a tear stained letter to the only parson he knew. It was his first historic record and he signed his name in bold, well rounded letters "A. LINCOLN." Three months later the faithful old man came in answer to his request and preached her funeral sermon.
But now all was his own, and he was in truth Newton of Newton, with no embarrassments of any kind which could impose a feather's weight upon his back. We will pass over the solemn sadness of the funeral at Newton and the subsequent reading of the old Squire's will. As to the latter, the will was as it had been made some six or seven years ago.
So, on the day of the funeral of Aunt Morin, the whole of the billet sent in a wreath to the house, and the whole of the billet attended the service in the little church, and they marched back and drew up by the front door a guard of honour extending a little distance down the road.
Georgie found himself the last to arrive, when he got back to Olga's and all three of them shook hands rather as people shake hands before a funeral. They went into dinner at once and Olga instantly began, "How many years did you say your admirable Atkinson had been with you?" she asked Colonel Boucher. "Twenty; getting on for twenty-one," said he.
His finger, however, never closed upon the trigger, for there came the sound of a shot from beyond Billy Byrne and the Mexican staggered forward, pitching over the edge of the porch to the ground. Billy turned his head in the direction from which the shot had come and saw Eddie Shorter running toward him, a smoking six-shooter in his right hand. "Go back," commanded Byrne; "this is my funeral."
"Rather will your majesty be gracious enough to promise not to dismiss me before that time?" "I promise you, and I must have your oath in return." "Sire, I swear! On that day in which I enter my seventieth year, I will send you my certificate of baptism, which you will also look upon as my funeral notice. "But before this time you will become very religious, a devotee, will you not?"
Thus it happened that Bixiou, who loved Joseph as much as a satirist can love any one, was sitting in the atelier with a group of other friends about two weeks after Agathe's funeral. The servant entered with a letter, brought by an old woman, she said, who was waiting below for the answer.
Surely no funeral is like unto that of a doctor for pathos, and a peculiar sadness fell on that company as his body was carried out who for nearly half a century had been their help in sickness, and had beaten back death time after time from their door. Death after all was victor, for the man that saved them had not been able to save himself.
His funeral had, however, been performed with full solemnity. King Henry regarded her as in truth a widow, and was very anxious to bestow her a second time in marriage.
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