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Updated: June 11, 2025
The flowers which covered the bed and lay scattered on the floor, gave a festal appearance to the death-chamber. They had been purchased for a fete, but circumstances had changed their destination. That evening there was to have been a reception in the house of M. de Nailles, but the unexpected guest that comes without an invitation had arrived before the music and the dancers.
The sad sound of children weeping broke the silence of the death-chamber. Edward still knelt, and Rose was bowed with grief; but the old Commodore's courageous voice sounded as though wrung from the depths of his sorely-stricken heart: "The Lord gave, and the Lord " his tongue failed him, but after a momentary struggle he continued in shaking tones "and the Lord taketh away. Blessed "
And sometimes, too, the dreadful odor of the decomposed body came toward us and penetrated us, sickening and indefinable. "Suddenly a shiver passed through our bones: a sound, a slight sound, came from the death-chamber.
A discovery of this nature was made in 1785 in a hidden vault at the foot of a stone staircase at Brandon Hall, Suffolk. Kingerby Hall, Lincolnshire, has a ghostly tradition of an unfortunate occupant of the hiding-hole near a fireplace being intentionally fastened in so that he was stifled with the heat and smoke; the skeleton was found years afterwards in this horrible death-chamber.
The holy quiet that ought to characterise a funeral procession is too frequently destroyed by the empty pomp and heartlessness which attend it; but in the death-chamber there is nothing of this; the very atmosphere seems impregnated with the stillness of the time when there was no life in the broad earth, and when only "God moved on the face of the waters."
She literally burned with desire to go there, and be at rest forever, and the last twelve days she spent on earth in a seemingly unbroken agony, were the most jubilant of her life. The dark clouds of life were disappearing, and the silver lining of the other side was brightening the death-chamber of the dying saint.
Upon a marble table close by lay the jewels she had worn a glittering and neglected heap of fire, which gave out more light than the shaded lamps that threw their beams brightly on them, and shed tender moonlight on that lovely old face. The family were slowly gathering in that death-chamber, where Clara and Caroline were clinging together in bitter grief, and old Mrs.
It is as large as his death-chamber in Weimar, where he breathed this prayer, and it looks down into the Italian-looking court, where probably he noticed the world for the first time, and thought it a paved enclosure thirty or forty feet square.
At the close of the day, he appeared before his wife, and in a changed voice commanded her first not to answer him, not to approach him, not even to look at him, and to obey, under the penalty of eternal damnation, every one of his orders, which were irrevocable. The funeral was to be held in accordance with the written instructions he had left on a chair in the death-chamber.
You are not able to endure such fatigue." "I am worn out," she said. "I believe I will lie down, but I feel as though I should never sleep again." She quitted the room, but not to seek her own. Outside the death-chamber she paused an instant, and her face lighted suddenly. "Now is my time," she said, under her breath. "A few hours more and it may be too late. His safe, he said the secret spring!"
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