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'Ah, Nastasie, said Tchitchikof, 'it is the will of God: we must not murmur against Providence! But tell me will you let me have them? 'Let you have what? 'Your dead souls. 'How can I let you have them? 'Nothing easier. Sell them to me: I will give you money for them. 'How! what! Do you want to disinter them? 'Disinter them! what nonsense; no! cried Tchitchikof.
He had to tell her the truth. Yet to tell her the truth he would have to tell her that the man she loved was dead. Then she would want proofs. He would have to bring up the Savoy Hotel people, fetch folk from America disinter Rochester. Horror! He had never thought of that. What had become of Rochester?
A motive which urged Blessed Francis to the above resolution, besides his desire of self-humiliation and immolation, was the hope of putting an end to the scandalous practice then prevailing among the surgical and medical students at Padua of secretly by night going to the cemeteries to disinter newly-buried bodies.
Let those persons who cannot get over George the Third and the Alabama ponder upon this for a minute or two. Much else is there that it were well they should ponder, and I am coming to it presently; but first, one suggestion. Most of us, if we dig back only fifty or sixty or seventy years, can disinter various relatives over whose doings we should prefer to glide lightly and in silence.
There was something so startlingly frank, so hopelessly self-satisfied, so contagiously good-humored in the woman's perfect moral unconsciousness, that even if Mrs. Tucker had been less preoccupied her resentment would have abated. But her eyes were fixed on the gloomy face of Patterson, who was beginning to unlock the sepulchres of his memory and disinter his deeply buried thoughts.
"Now, Haskell, tell what you know." "Wait," said Nick, "who is this man?" And he pointed to Chick. "He's a fellow that knows my brother. We met him just below, and brought him along to help in the identification. There are two more coming." "Then you purpose to disinter your brother's body at once?" "Of course I do." "You have no tools." "The others will bring them. That's what they're after."
I then went out to see the grave-diggers, and used such convincing arguments that they willingly agreed to disinter the body. My arguments were brief, but cogent, and were presented to them about in the following way: "Mr. Grave-digger, you look like a man of discretion, who knows how to open his hands and shut his mouth. I wish to obtain the body of the late Mrs. Pattmore for a short time.
And so, upon a dark night near the head waters of the river he sought, he buried the treasure at the foot of a mighty buttress tree, and with his parang made certain cabalistic signs upon the bole whereby he might identify the spot when it was safe to return and disinter his booty.
"Oh, nonsense!" exclaimed the Doctor, laughing, "you can do better than that. You had better offer the regular grave-diggers ten dollars to leave the body a short time in your possession before burying it; or, if Pattmore should insist upon seeing it buried, they can easily disinter it for you, and it will take me only a short time to remove the intestines.
"I know that your first question will be: 'Is there sufficient proof of his ever having been dead? To this I answer unhesitatingly, 'Yes. He was too well-known a character and too many people saw the corpse to admit of any mistake on this point. I may add here that it was at one time proposed to disinter the original remains, but that project was abandoned in deference to the wishes of Mr.
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