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Updated: June 16, 2025
Oh! was there any afternoon where the child had gone, and where she was following fast? or was it all night, black, eternal night, unbroken by the dram of dear remembered things? There were the Dog Rocks, where she had stood on that misty autumn day, and seen the vision of her coffined mother's face. Surely it was a presage of her fate.
Coffined in state, with a purple velvet pall trailing its rich folds over the casket which enshrined her perished mortality, and with flowers of every imaginable rareness, or wildness, scattered about it, the body of Lotys was, with no religious or formal ceremony, placed on the deck of a sailing-brig, and sent out to the waves for burial.
The mother gently and tenderly held him off a little way, looking with burning eyes into his face; her own was pale as death, but not a sob or tear yet. Come, son, don't cry any more; you're mother's man, you know." That same night that mother started alone back to her home, bearing the coffined body of her youngest son, parting bravely from the elder, whose sorrow was overwhelming.
And now this unhappy prince went to take a last view of his dear wife, and as he looked on his Thaisa he said: "A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; no light, no fire; the unfriendly elements forget thee utterly, nor have I time to bring thee hallowed to thy grave, but must cast thee scarcely coffined into the sea, where for a monument upon thy bones the humming waters must overwhelm thy corpse, lying with simple shells.
Then it was proclaimed that this corpse had ceased to breathe. The heir of a long line of kings was coffined and buried. While the elder De Ferrier shed nervous tears, the younger looked on with eyes which had seen the drollery of the French Revolution. "I wish I knew the man who has played this clever trick, and whether honest men or the rabble are behind it." "Let us find him and embrace him!"
If one of his characters draws a metaphor from pie-crust, he must needs use language of the churchyard: You speak as if a man Should know what fowl is coffined in a baked meat Afore you cut it open. It sounds like a presentiment of coming woes, which, as the drama grows to its conclusion, gather and darken on the wretched victims of his bloody plot.
Truer and more beautiful was Muriel's instinctive notion of "turning into an angel and flying away." So we arranged that the poor little body should be coffined and removed before the children rose next morning. It was a very quiet tea-time. A sense of awe was upon the little ones, they knew not why.
In the blind tomb of the midnight he stretched his two arms sideways, and felt as if coffined at not being able to extend them straight out, on opposite sides, for the narrowness of the cell. He seated himself against one side of the wall, crosswise with the cell, and pushed with his feet at the opposite wall. But still mindful of his promise in this extremity, he uttered no cry.
Sir Matthew Fell was duly coffined and laid into the earth, and his funeral sermon, preached by Mr Crome on the following Sunday, has been printed under the title of 'The Unsearchable Way; or, England's Danger and the Malicious Dealings of Antichrist', it being the Vicar's view, as well as that most commonly held in the neighbourhood, that the Squire was the victim of a recrudescence of the Popish Plot.
"I'd rather a met death than this; I'd rather a knawn you was coffined." "Oh, if I could awnly 'splain!" she cried, frantically; "if I awnly could find his words 'pon my tongue, but I caan't. They be hid down deep in me, an' by them I lives from day to day; but how can I make others see same as I see? I awnly brings sorrer 'pon sorrer now. Theer's nothin' left but him.
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