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Several days later, the Sentinelle des Vosges contained the following paragraph, written with the official sorrow found in all death-notices at thirty sous per line: "A frightful event, which has just thrown two of our best families into mourning, has caused the greatest consternation throughout the Remiremont district.
The Calle Lunga is the chief shopping centre of this neighbourhood its Merceria and all the needs of poorer Venetian life are supplied there. But what most interested me was the death-notices in the shop windows. Every day there was a new one; sometimes two.
It is that of appending to published death-notices a little verse or two of comforting poetry. Any one who is in the habit of reading the daily Philadelphia LEDGER must frequently be touched by these plaintive tributes to extinguished worth.
Then, her brain filled with the fire of raving madness, she rushed out upon the balcony, and Bergenheim, before his last breath escaped him, heard the noise of her body as it fell into the river. Several days later, the Sentinelle des Vosges contained the following paragraph, written with the official sorrow found in all death-notices at thirty sous per line
When he goes out I pray for something to happen; when he comes back I say to myself: 'Are you here again? When I hear of people being killed in accidents, I think: 'Why wasn't he there? When I read the death-notices in the paper I say: 'So-and-so was just his age. When I see him taking such care of his health and his diet as he does, you know, except when he gets reckless and begins to drink too much when I see him exercising and resting, and eating only certain things, and weighing himself, and feeling his muscles, and boasting that he hasn't gained a pound, I think of the men who die from overwork, or who throw their lives away for some great object, and I say to myself: 'What can kill a man who thinks only of himself? And night after night I keep myself from going to sleep for fear I may dream that he's dead.
Smeaton was expecting us he, too, was reading about me in the Advertiser when we entered, and he made some joking remark about it only being great men that were sometimes treated to death-notices before they were dead. And then he turned to Mr. Lindsey, who I noticed had been taking close stock of him. "I've been thinking out things since Mr. Moneylaws was in here last night," he remarked.
Bennett presently discovered that her hosts were not hearing a word she was saying; so she got up, wondering and indignant, and went away. The moment she was out of the house, Aleck eagerly tore the wrapper from the paper, and her eyes and Sally's swept the columns for the death-notices. Disappointment! Tilbury was not anywhere mentioned.
Several days later, the Sentinelle des Vosges contained the following paragraph, written with the official sorrow found in all death-notices at thirty sous per line: "A frightful event, which has just thrown two of our best families into mourning, has caused the greatest consternation throughout the Remiremont district.
"A run of four-line obits," suggested Van Cleve, who had passed a painful apprenticeship of death-notices in which is neither profitable space nor hopeful opportunity, "for a few days, will do it." "Or the job of asking an indignant millionaire papa why his pet daughter ran away with the second footman and where."
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