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"So you is," said Diana, laughing and then checking herself. "Is it far to " "To where, Di?" "To the garding," said Diana; "to the dead-house where Rub-a-Dub is. Let's go and sit on the little bench and see the dead 'uns let's count 'em; I wonder how many there is!" She stopped suddenly and gazed around her. "What do you mean?" said Orion, in some alarm. "We are nowhere near the garden.
"Why not into the dead-house at once?" queried Diana. "No; the arbor will do for the present." Iris quickened her footsteps and walked down the straight path through the midst of the Scotch roses. Having reached the pretty little summer-house, she seated herself on her rustic chair and waited until Diana arrived with the poor innocent.
Poyser and Nancy were crushing the first evening cheese. "Why, you might think you war come to a dead-house," said Mrs. Poyser, as he stood in the open doorway; "they're all i' the meadow; but Martin's sure to be in afore long, for they're leaving the hay cocked to-night, ready for carrying first thing to-morrow.
'Did she tell you she visited the dead-house? asked Tinkler, his eyes growing larger at the extent of the chaplain's information. 'Of course she did, replied Cargrim, and this was truer than most of his remarks. Tinkler brought down a heavy fist with a bang on his desk. 'Then I'm blest, Mr Cargrim, sir, if I can understand what she meant by asking me to hold my tongue.
The dead-house is merely a frame covered with old tent cloth and a few bushes, situated in the southwestern corner of the hospital grounds.
In the dead-house the corpses lie upon the bare ground, and were in most cases covered with filth and vermin. The cooking arrangements are of the most defective character.
I planted a lot of mignonette the day before I went away. I wonder if it has come up." The children wandered about the garden. The dead-house was now empty; the four little gardens looked sadly the worse for want of watering and general looking after.
But that poetic impressibility did not run wild with crazy fancies when she was left to sleep on the floor of the dead-house: the same strong sense controlled it that started the "tassel manufactory" in New York, where it had been meant to open a physician's office. Only thirteen years old when she left school, she had but little aid beside a steady purpose in preparing for her career.
All manner of island food was meanwhile spread for the women and the commons; and, for those who were privileged to eat of it, there were carried up to the dead-house the baskets of long- pig. It is told that the feasts were long kept up; the people came from them brutishly exhausted with debauchery, and the chiefs heavy with their beastly food.
Whether the good lady meant to indicate Miss Whichello by the second name, Mr Cargrim did not stay to inquire, as he was in a hurry to see her himself and find out why she had visited the dead-house. He therefore bowed and smiled himself out of Mrs Pansey's gaol, and walked as rapidly as he was able to the little house in the shadow of the cathedral towers.
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