fu-ne-ral

Updated: May 21, 2025

The continued impossibility of getting on without plum-cake; the ceremonious apparition of a pair of decanters containing port and sherry and cork; Sally's sister at the tea-table, clinking the best crockery and shaking her head mournfully every time she looked down into the teapot, as if it were the tomb; the Coat of Arms again, and Sally as before; lastly, the words of consolation administered to Sally when it was considered right that she should 'come round nicely: which were, that the deceased had had 'as com-for-ta-ble a fu-ne-ral as comfortable could be!

Charles Dickens - The Uncommercial Traveller