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Closely connected with the church was the clergyman's house, a comfortable-looking residence; and likewise in the churchyard, with tombstones all about it, even almost at the threshold, so that the doorstep itself might have been a tombstone, was another house, of respectable size and aspect.
But no one knows but he himself and Mr Bethany and I, that it was a wretched broken grave, quite at the bottom of the hill, that he chose for his resting place, nor and I can't get the scene out of my head nor that the name on that one solitary tombstone down there was was...this! Danton rolled his eyes. 'I don't begin to follow, he said stubbornly.
And nothing changed, Ernesta continued to live in the same cold gloom, in the midst of the same dead past, the weight of which, like that of a tombstone, she felt pressing more and more heavily upon her. The marriage was, on either side, a very honourable one. Count Brandini soon passed as being the most foolish and haughty man in Rome.
I passed up the narrow walk, reading the inscriptions, till I came to the tomb of Franz Clement, a young composer, who died two or three years ago. On turning again, my eye fell instantly on the word "BEETHOVEN," in golden letters, on a tombstone of gray marble. A simple gilded lyre decorated the pedestal, above which was a serpent encircling a butterfly the emblem of resurrection to eternal life.
Everybody stared. "A remarkably neat scheme," said Mr. Shaw, "but impossible of application, I'm afraid, because none of us knows where to find the cave." I shook my head. "I know!" There was a lengthy silence. People looked at one another, and their eyes said, This has been too much for her! "I know," I impatiently repeated. "I can take you straight there. I found the tombstone before Mr.
"Oh, ah, of course. Now then, let's have it. Do you want me to write a verse for your tombstone?" "They'd pitch me overboard," said Long, dolefully. "Not they," said Bob. "This promising young officer, who had taken it into his head that he had been wounded by a poisoned kris, was buried under a palm tree, to the great relief of all who knew him, for they found him the most conceited "
After you are dead it doesn't matter if you were not successful in a business way. No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there. The best epitaph proclaims simple old Scripture virtues, like honesty and diligence and patience.
She understood it all in an instant, saw the new form in which the trial presented itself, and her soul sickened. "Mr. Clifton, if I were your sister, or your child, I would gladly go; but as your pupil, I cannot." "As Electra Grey, certainly not; but as Electra Clifton you could go." "Electra Grey will be carved on my tombstone." "Then you decide my fate.
"But don't forget that your tombstone is neither more nor less than such a boulder as there are thousands of on the island, and buried under the tropic growth of ninety years besides."
"The wisest course," he thought, was, " . . . to blend the whole of the philosophy of the tombstone with a portion of the philosophy of the publican and something more, to enjoy one's pint and pipe and other innocent pleasures, and to think every now and then of death and judgment."
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