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Christmas morning in the old Tory Hill Meeting-House was felt by all of the persons who were present in that particular year to be a most exciting and memorable occasion. The old sexton quite outdid himself, for although he had rung the bell for more than thirty years, he had never felt greater pride or joy in his task.
It was latterly found necessary to force him out of the grave; though, as I was informed by George, he had shrunk from the view of the dead body of his wife, while it lay in the house, and before it was interred. The lid was again placed on the coffin, the screws fixed, and the grave filled up. Mr B slipped a guinea into the hand of the sexton, and we took our way back to the town.
Joseph Moody, of York, Maine, who died about eighty years since, made himself remarkable by the same eccentricity that is here related of the Reverend Mr. Hooper. In his case, however, the symbol had a different import. "But what has good Parson Hooper got upon his face?" cried the sexton, in astonishment. All within hearing immediately turned about and beheld the semblance of Mr.
"Theology?" murmured Mr. Prohack, turning to look at her and marvelling at the romantic quality of basements. "There was a mission on at the Methodists' in Paddington Street, and in I went. Seems strange to me to be going into a Methodists', seeing as I'm so friendly with Mr. Milcher." "Who is Mr. Milcher?" "Milcher's the sexton at St. Nicodemus, sir. Or I should say sacristan.
Your sister is a charming nurse." A long quiet ensued; in it came the memory of Dr. Eaton's interest in the young girl's face. "Is Mr. Axtell an artist?" I asked, after the silence. "Mr. Axtell is a church-sexton," was the response. "Cannot he be both sexton and artist?" "How can he?"
"There," said the old man, "follow with these, and a little farther up you will come to the church, which stands on the right hand." He then left me. I went with the rest and soon came to the church. I went in and was at once conducted by an old man, who I believe was the sexton, to a large pew close against the southern wall.
Other minor defects there also were, but nothing that might not be remedied in Committee by conciliatory adjustments. A National Convention was summoned for 16th April to consider whether the Bill should be accepted or otherwise. Previously there was much subterranean communication between Messrs Dillon, Davitt, Sexton and T.P. O'Connor, all with calculated intent to damage or destroy the Bill.
There they stuck, as the seamen used to say, like the Merrydun, of Dover, which took seven years in veering, and when she did so the fly of her ensign swept two flocks of sheep off Beachy Head, while her jib-boom knocked down the steeple of Calais church and killed the sexton. Cruising on this Siberian ground was horribly monotonous work.
It angered him to realize how easily it had been accomplished; not so much as a blow struck; no opportunity even for him to cry out an alarm only that dark cabin, and the threatening revolver shoved against his cheek. He wondered where McAdams was; perhaps hunting him even then on the pier; and Sexton, what had he succeeded in discovering out at Fairlawn?
The sexton stopped to listen when they were nearly out of range, and was fairly carried away by the 'go' of the orator. 'Doan't he do it nateral! he said with enthusiasm to David, after a passage specially and unflatteringly devoted to himself. 'Lor' bless yo, it don't hurt me. But I do loike a bit o' good speakin, 'at I do.
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