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A child had died on the island, and one of them, who is also a coffin-maker, had to supply a coffin. This seemed a reasonable excuse. But when I inquired whether the coffin was finished, he replied: "I bought one ready-made in the town ... saved me a lot of bother, that did." His friend and colleague had been to the town with him to help him in his choice!
The driver of the vehicle, a tall, cadaverous-looking man, was ringing his bell, and jesting with another person, whom the young man recognised, with a shudder, as Chowles. The coffin-maker also recognised him at the same moment, and called to him, but the other paid no attention to the summons and passed on.
A glance showed him that this person was Chowles; and instantly comprehending what was the matter, and aware that the coffin-maker was stripping him previously to throwing him into the dead-cart, which was standing hard by, he cried aloud, and struggled desperately to set himself free.
Mounting Addle-hill, and threading Ave-Maria-lane, they entered Warwick-lane, and about half-way up the latter thoroughfare, the doctor stopped before a shop, bearing on its immense projecting sign the representation of a coffin lying in state, and covered with scutcheons, underneath which was written, "ANSELM CHOWLES, COFFIN-MAKER." "I do not think you will find Mr.
As soon as they get what they want, the dead are nothing to them." An hour later, Schmucke saw Mme. Sauvage come into the room, followed by another man in a suit of black, a workman, to all appearance. "Cantinet has been so obliging as to send this gentleman, sir," she said; "he is coffin-maker to the parish."
"And this false statement imposed upon them?" cried Leonard. "It did," replied Nizza. "They were by this time more than half intoxicated by the brandy given them by Chowles, the coffin-maker, and they departed in high dudgeon with you." "No wonder!" exclaimed Leonard.
Judith attended the coffin-maker, and it was mainly owing to her that he got through the attack. She never left him for a moment, and would never suffer any one to approach him a necessary precaution, as he was so much alarmed by his situation that he would infallibly have made some awkward revelations.
When that doctor appointed this funeral, we thought he knew his business, and I told the angel, say I, 'My pard ain't going to be buried without any style, in one of those pine boxes that ain't planed, and has got slivers on. So I hired the hospital coffin-maker to sand-paper the inside and outside of a box, and black it with shoe-blacking, and I went to a store down town and bought these handles.
Malmayns," returned Hodges, "and I must have the matter thoroughly investigated before I lose sight of you." "I will vouch for the truth of Mrs. Malmayn's statement," interposed Chowles. "You!" cried Hodges, contemptuously. "Yes, I," replied the coffin-maker.
After administering such remedies as she thought fit, and as were at hand, Judith sat down with the coffin-maker beside a small table, and entered into conversation with him. "Well," said Chowles, in an indifferent tone, as he poured out a glass of brandy, "is it to be kill or cure?" "I have not decided," replied Judith, pledging him.
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