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Clarence Bowen, and his young and elegant wife, were riding in a part of the city whose broad avenues were overarched with trees all radiant with autumnal flames, when a hearse, followed by a single carriage, suddenly attracted the attention of the former. Why was it that his whole frame shook, and the color left his face?

I dashed madly forward, one sound still ringing in my ears, one horrid image before my eyes. As I neared the house the whole approach was crowded with carriages and horsemen. At the foot of the large flight of steps stood the black and mournful hearse, its plumes nodding in the breeze.

The man peered at me suddenly, and leaned forward to shorten his reins, for we were on the edge of a steepish dip downhill. "Well, and so we might," he answered, picking up his whip again and indicating the dark moorland on our left. "That's if half the tales be true." "Haunted?" I asked, scanning the darkness. "Opposition coach hearse and pair, driven by the Old Gentleman hisself.

For a few minutes everything seemed to whirl and spin before his eyes; a light broke upon him, but so unexpected, so incredible, that it came with the force of a blow. The undertaker entered the room and screwed down the lid of the coffin; the pall-bearers followed and carried it to the hearse. Then the mourners rose and prepared to set forth, in the order of their relation to the deceased.

"What does he mean?" The doctor, standing back in the shadow of the house, seemed to have some reason for not answering otherwise than by gesture. He touched his forehead significantly; and, stepping out into the road, took Jack by the hand. The canopy of the hearse, closed at the sides, was open at either end. From the driver's seat, the couch became easily visible on looking round.

To Eliza Conlon was given the task of providing refreshments. I say "task," for after the carpenter was paid for the coffin and Jamie Scott for the hearse there was only six shillings left. "Get whey for th' childther," Anna said, and "childther" in this catalog ran up into the twenties. For the older "childther" there was something from Mrs.

A sweet prayer, a few loving words, a simple hymn, and the young pall-bearers carried out their pale brother, and, preceding the hearse in their carriage, followed by the stricken ones and the rest in carriages and on foot, the little procession went sadly to the burying-ground.

They would have given him the body of his child; but he had no hearse, no coffin, nothing to remove it in, being too poor and walked meekly away beside the cart that took it back to prison, trying, as he went, to touch its lifeless hand.

One of these infamous, hard-hearted wretches in Bedford, was stricken, soon after, with death; and such had been his notorious brutality, that his widow could not obtain a hearse, but was obliged to carry his body to the grave in a cart. It is gratifying to leave these horrors these stains upon our national history for a moment, to record an event which took place about fifty years back. The Rev.

"They're polite to her because she's so everlastingly gloomy. Same sort of politeness they'd show to a hearse, you know respectful but not companionable." Patricia gave an exclamation. "I believe I've seen her!" she cried. "She wears a long cloak and a hat with a big black plume, doesn't she? We noticed her at lunch and wondered what was the matter with her."