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I could not help wondering what those two argued concerning death and the immortality of the soul. The tick! tick! tick! of the clock sounded with persistent distinctness in the room where the women sat, and Grandma Bartlett sighed, and then came the awful whisper: "Ah, death's vary sahd vary sahd." Grandma Bartlett, superannuated as she was, was the most trite of the Wallencampers.
So he lay, shaking and sobbing helplessly. Grandma Bartlett, standing in the door, studied him for some moments with her fossilized eyes: "Fatherless and motherless, now," said she. "Poor creetur, humph! Vary sahd." Then she blinked, and, simultaneously, the subject seemed to have slipped from her mind, and she to have become vaguely contemplative concerning worlds and ages remote.
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