funeral-friends

Updated: July 10, 2025

And therefore I have bidden these funeral-friends, and bespoken the sexton's deepest knell, and am come in my shroud to wed you as with a burial-service, that we may join our hands at the door of the sepulchre and enter it together." It was not frenzy, it was not merely the drunkenness of strong emotion in a heart unused to it, that now wrought upon the bride.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Twice Told Tales