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That gentleman over there is as true and loyal a subject of King George as you are yourself, my lord saving your presence. He is but lately arrived in Dover, and is setting down in business in these parts." "In business? Faith, then, it must be as an undertaker, for I vow I never beheld a more rueful countenance."

He dismounted at the stile to find ministering neighbors gathered there and, as never before, the unrelieved and almost biblical antiquity of this life impressed itself on his realization. Here was no undertaker, treading softly with skilled and considerately silent helpers. No mourning wreath hung on the door.

The poorest persons have a bit of pageant going towards the tomb; memorial stones are set up over the least memorable; and, in order to preserve some show of respect for what remains of our old loves and friendships, we must accompany it with much grimly ludicrous ceremonial, and the hired undertaker parades before the door.

Mary-'Gusta could hear the hens clucking and the voices of people talking. The voices were two: one was that of Mrs. Hobbs, the housekeeper, and the other belonged to Mr. Abner Hallett, the undertaker. Mary-'Gusta did not like Mr. Hallett's voice; she liked neither it nor its owner's manner; she described both voice and manner to herself as "too soothy." They gave her the shivers. Mr.

It was not too late at night, but this London moved with the decorum and caution of an undertaker. There was a silence, and yet there was no silence. There was a low drone, perhaps a humming contributed inevitably by closely-gathered thousands, and yet on second thoughts it was to me silence.

In this case too a large sheet of plate- glass was uncovered, and to form an idea of the <i>etalage</i> you must imagine that a jeweller, for reasons of his own, has struck an unnatural partnership with an undertaker. The black mummified corpse of the saint is stretched out in a glass coffin, clad in his mouldering canonicals, mitred, crosiered and gloved, glittering with votive jewels.

I sent back my own card wrote: 'Not yet. When we were leaving I went over to thank him and tell him I was sorry I hadn't been able to throw him a job. Even then, I didn't feel I could logically say good-by to an undertaker I just said 'Au revoir." The two men afterward joined Sawdy at the Mountain House.

'It shall be, sir, she replied, curtseying again. 'You knows me of old, sir, I hope. 'I hope so, too, Mrs Gamp, said the undertaker, 'and I think so also. Mrs Gamp curtseyed again. 'This is one of the most impressive cases, sir, he continued, addressing Mr Pecksniff, 'that I have seen in the whole course of my professional experience. 'Indeed, Mr Mould! cried that gentleman.

The same young rowdies pushed each other about, and spat, and swore, near the undertaker shop and the telegraph office. But as I walked past the Hartman express office the private concern which Hartman, the thin, wiry shock-haired Swede, had built up through arduous struggle, beginning with one wagon Hartman saw me through the window, and beckoned vigorously for me to step in....

Such a thing takes them out of their daily round, and beggars their experience, and makes them excited and tactless. There's no precedent for them, and you know how most people depend on precedent and how they're bowled over before anything new." "I will go to Mary, I think. Has the undertaker been?" "Yes, uncle." "I want him to be buried with us here. I should not suppose his father will object."