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And then the funeral pomp set forth; saulies with their batons and gumphions of tarnished white crape, in honour of the well- preserved maiden fame of Mrs. Margaret Bertram.
"He had it all the while in his pocket." "Look here," blustered Mike, "you jest mind your own business! That's the best thing for you." "Suppose I don't?" "If you don't there may be a funeral to-morrow of a boy about your size." There was a laugh at Paul's expense, but he took it coolly. "I'll send you a particular invitation to attend, if I can get anybody to go over to the island."
Yet if untimely death awaited my son, it will be good to think he fell leading the Teucrians into Latium, and slew his Volscian thousands before he fell. Nay, no other funeral than this would I deem thy due, my Pallas, than good Aeneas does, than the mighty Phrygians, than the Tyrrhene captains and all the army of Tyrrhenia.
After a while he took her hand and looked into her face, "And now it has passed," he said, calm that she should not be sorry. Build for my love a costly sepulchre; Not underneath cathedral arches dim, Where the sad soul may wake to comfort her The stately music of a funeral hymn;
The chapel at Kensal Green was solemn and grand, being filled with the grand officers of state, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, &c., &c. We saw none of the Tories or Royal Family at the palace, but in the chapel there were the Duke of Cambridge, chief mourner; Prince Albert, &c. The ceremony was over at twelve. There was a funeral service, but no discourse."
Trenholm will be right at your back all the way down, and we can't take any chances now, Reddy. I'll settle him when the boats are off, and then you won't have anything to worry about. Cut his feet loose." "What style of a funeral would suit him?" asked Petrak, busy with the cords at my feet. "We'll have to select something special for Mr. Trenholm. How about the same go-off we gave Caldish?
I found by a miracle of good fortune an Isvostchick in the street outside. We plunged along through the pools of water in the direction of the Gagarinskaya. That was a horrible drive. In the Sadovaya we met the slow, winding funeral procession.
They say that the character is indicated by the handwriting; if so, mine is crabbed enough. January 23. Still severe frost, annoying to sore fingers. Nothing on the roll. I sat at home and wrote letters to Wilkie, Landseer, Mrs. Hughes, Charles, etc. Went out to old Mr. Ferrier's funeral, and saw the last duty rendered to my old friend, whose age was " Like a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly,"
But others spoke of Chilo. "What has happened to him?" asked Eprius Marcellus. "He delivered them himself into the hands of Tigellinus; from a beggar he became rich; it was possible for him to live out his days in peace, have a splendid funeral, and a tomb: but, no! All at once he preferred to lose everything and destroy himself; he must, in truth, be a maniac."
When Israel beheld the funeral rites prepared in honor of Aaron by God and by the angels, they also prepared a funeral ceremony of thirty days in which all the people, men and women, adults and children, took part.
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