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'Not whilst your father is in the house, Howel; I should be afraid. Be you sure his spirit'll be looking after the money till the funeral's over. 'Nonsense; where are the keys? We'll have a turn at the old bureau anyhow. Money I must have, at once, and Rowland is as obstinate as a pig about what the governor told him. 'Indeet, and indeet, Howel, you had better don't.
"Joanna," said little Ellen in a loud whisper, "may I take off my hat?" "No, that you mayn't." "But the elastic's so tight it's cutting my chin. Why mayn't I?" "You can't till the funeral's over." "It is over. They've put father in the ground." "It isn't over till we've had tea, and you keep your hat on till it's over." For answer Ellen tore off her pork-pie hat and threw it on the floor.
It was a busy day in the Street and values were going up by leaps and bounds. The broker was not in a good humor; many of his customers were short of the market. He followed Jack into his private office and faced him. "Funeral's at one o'clock Sunday, I see," he said in a sharp voice, as if he resented the incident. "Your aunt and I will be out on the noon train.
"I know it is," sympathized Amarilly, concentrating her mind on the puzzling solution of Hallie's habiliment. "Mrs. Hudgers," she exclaimed suddenly, "why can't you put the surplus on Hallie? You kin slip it on over his suit, and when the funeral's over, and they hev all looked at the corpse, you kin take it offen him." "Oh, that would be sweet!" cried Mrs. Hudgers, brightening perceptibly.
When the Vale scored their goal a wag, primed with a fair-sized pocket pistol, no doubt containing the best well, every public-house salesman will tell you at anyrate, it is the "best," and charge for it, too, as "special" began to lilt a verse of the popular pantomime song, "Their funeral's to-morrow," hinting heavily about the decline and fall of the Queen's Park.
Well, this funeral was just too splendid for anythin'. In the first place there was " "Oh, it's coming," cried Ezekiel, pricking up his ears. "Miss Bedlow's funeral's coming." Rachel gave a jump that carried her off from the door-stone and quite a piece down the box-bordered path. She was hanging over the gate when the boys came up. "Where?" she said. "I don't see any."
When Brother Brock resumed his place on the driver's seat and Sister Brock had ascended to hers with the cacklings of a hen who had been rudely snatched from her nest, and all the medium-sized and little Brocks were safely bestowed beside her, we drove on at a funeral's pace behind them. The bay was grossly insulted, but it was the only mark of humility left within our reach.
The funeral's to be to-morrow." "Then," Robinson said, "we're confined for the present to this end of the case. The facts I have tell me that two murders have been committed in this house. It is still my first duty to convict the guilty man." Graham indicated the huddled, frightened figure in the chair. "You are going against the evidence of your own eyes."
There's a fearful deal o' oaths spilt in a grave while it's i' th' makin', I can tell yo'; and th' Almeety's name is spoken more daan i' th' hoile than it is up aboon, for all th' parson reads it so mich aat of his book. But this funeral's baan to be lat', Mr. Penrose'; and drawing a huge watch from his fob, he exclaimed: 'Another ten minutes and there's no berryin' i' th' yard this afternoon.
The train's due the very time the funeral's to start, but that train's always late, though they say the ingine-driver is an Orangeman! And the funeral will start at the time fixed, or I don't know the boys that belong to the lodge. So it's up to We, Us & Co. to see the thing through, or go bust. It don't suit me.
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