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Marsden, who had tucked his napkin between two of the buttons of his frayed waistcoat, looked suspiciously across the glass with the dregs of the gin and bitters that he had half raised to his lips. "Eh?" he said. "I say, Romarin, don't let's go grave-digging among memories merely for the sake of making conversation. Yours may be pleasant, but I'm not in the habit of wasting much time over mine.
I saw, moving in the doubtful shadows of approaching night, the grave-digging hyaena! It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The port authorities have even the impudence to declare, that to erect lighthouses at the mouth of the ports would be thwarting the decrees of Divine Providence! In spite of all this, however, at the urgent request of Mr.
Large holes were dug in the Market Square, in which process of grave-digging by storm a little girl was injured not by a shell, but by the volley of small pebbles it displaced. This class of buckshot apart from the missiles themselves did a good deal of light skirmishing about the calves of people's legs, and threw dust in their eyes with the force and fury of a "south-easter."
There were the family mourning, the funeral repast, the choice of the text on the memorial card, the composition of the legend on the coffin, the legal arrangements, the letters to relations, the selection of guests, and the questions of bell-ringing, hearse, plumes, number of horses, and grave-digging.
Our new advocates of the old cause, however, quote two passages which, from the freedom with which law-phrases are scattered through them, it is worth while to reproduce here. The first is the well-known speech in the grave-digging scene of "Hamlet": "Ham. There's another: Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer?
Waiting on such individuals as them would be better than grave-digging, sir. 'And staying here would be better than either, Mark, replied Tom. 'So take my advice, and continue to swim easily in smooth water. 'It's too late to take it now, sir, said Mark. 'I have broke it to her, sir. I am off to-morrow morning. 'Off! cried Mr Pinch, 'where to? 'I shall go up to London, sir.
I don't think grave-digging is cheerful. The two talked and agreed that the Cemetery was depressing. They also arranged for a ride next day out from the Cemetery through the Mashobra Tunnel up to Fagoo and back, because all the world was going to a garden-party at Viceregal Lodge, and all the people of Mashobra would go too.
I'm just trying to fit a theory to the facts. And the facts are clear. The magter are so inhuman they would give me nightmares if I were sleeping these days. What we need is more evidence." "Then get it," Lea said with finality. "I'm not telling you to turn murderer but you might try a bit of grave-digging.
'Does Mrs Lupin know you are going to leave her? Mr Pinch inquired. 'I haven't broke it to her yet, sir, but I must. I'm looking out this morning for something new and suitable, he said, nodding towards the city. 'What kind of thing now? Mr Pinch demanded. 'I was thinking, Mark replied, 'of something in the grave-digging. way. 'Good gracious, Mark? cried Mr Pinch.
The sexton was a tall thin man, emaciated by years and by privations; his body was bent habitually by his occupation of grave-digging, and his eye naturally inclined downward to the scene of his labours.
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