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No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour no need to have said, 'Think of me at my best! I had done that ever; and could I change now, looking on this sight! They brought a hand-bier, and laid him on it, and covered him with a flag, and took him up and bore him on towards the houses.
Stand aside, neighbours, and let the Alderman's son see it. They did so, and there was the corpse of a thin-faced tall wiry man, somewhat foxy of aspect, lying on a hand-bier covered with black cloth.
"Scarcely had he ceased speaking, when Uncle Caleb Grandpapa Marcy, Cousin Guth, and good-natured Uncle Dib, and the grindstone-man, Fourney, all dressed in bright aprons, and white ghost-like night-caps made their appearance, tugging and puffing at a hand-bier, on which lay the much-talked-of flounder.
Every one felt the news like a personal blow, and even the widow Wigley, who lives down in the valley, was full of sympathy. She had never quite got over her resentment at the funeral of David's father. Her own husband had been carried to his grave on a hand-bier, but at the funeral of David's father there was a horse-drawn hearse and a carriage for the mourners.
In provincial France, the solemnities are sufficiently hideous, but are few and cheap. The friends and townsmen of the departed, in their own dresses and not masquerading under the auspices of the African Conjurer, surround the hand-bier, and often carry it.
The footsteps they were double paused at the door and Dantes guessed that the two grave-diggers had come to seek him this idea was soon converted into certainty, when he heard the noise they made in putting down the hand-bier.
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