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He ban't himself 'tall. You'd best to go arter en now this minute. An' theer's things to be done in Penzance the doctor an' the crowner an' an' the coffin-maker. Do what you can to take trouble off the auld man." "Get me my coat an' I'll go straight 'way. 'Tis thrawed awver the poor faace of her." Two minutes later Mr.
It is early spring, we will suppose; and being in the Bowery, we find the streets in its vicinity reeking with putrid matter, hurling pestilence into the dark dwellings of the unknown poor, and making thankful the coffin-maker, who in turn thanks a nonundertaking corporation for the rich harvest.
Whilst arranging with the coffin-maker and the "Hegelein," the sexton and upholsterer, ordering a large number of candles and everything else requisite at the funeral of the mistress of an aristocratic household, she also found time to look after her father and Countess Cordula, who was better. Yet she did not forget her own affairs. Biberli had returned.
The plague is our harvest, as my friend Chowles, the coffin-maker, says, and it will not do to stop it ha! ha!" "It is too serious a subject to laugh at," returned Blaize, gravely. "But are the doctor's fees exorbitant?" "To the last degree," replied Parkhurst. "I am afraid to state how much he asks."
"A time bargain?" quavered the coffin-maker. "No. Money down, and scrip handed over." "I I can't. The fact is, my dear young friend, I have sold all my stock already!" "Then permit me to ask, Mr Sawley, what possible objection you can have to the present aspect of affairs?
In his eyes you could read the question, "What in the devil's name does the child mean?" The robust woman read it there, and answered him huskily "Poor mite! she's buried her father this mornin'; an' Mister Barrabel is the coffin-maker, an' nailed 'en down." "Now," said Annie, this time eagerly, "will 'ee warm him same as the big doll did just now?"
The coffin-maker made his bow with a sympathetic and compassionate air, but none the less he had a business-like look, and seemed to know that he was indispensable. He turned an expert's eye upon the dead. "How does the gentleman wish 'it' to be made? Deal, plain oak, or oak lead-lined? Oak with a lead lining is the best style.
A link stuck against the wall threw a strong light over the scene, and showed that the coffin-maker was alone. As Leonard advanced, the sound of his footsteps caught Chowles's ear, and uttering a cry of surprise and alarm, he let fall the lid of the chest, and sprang to his feet. "What do you want?" he cried, looking uneasily round, as if in search of some weapon. "Are you come to rob me?"
Old Sam Sawley, the coffin-maker, is their principal spokesman here; and wherever he goes the rest will follow, like a flock of sheep bounding after a patriarchal ram. I propose, therefore, to wait upon him to-morrow, and request his co-operation in a scheme which is not only to prove profitable, but to make head against the lax principles of the present age. Leave me alone to tickle him.
"Apropos of melancholy subjects," said Etherege, "your masque of the Dance of Death has caused great consternation at court. Mistress Stewart declares she cannot get that strange fellow who performed such fantastic tricks in the skeleton-dance out of her head." "You mean Chowles," replied the earl. "He is a singular being, certainly once a coffin-maker, and now, I believe, a burier of the dead.
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