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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was Ratsey the sexton at work in a shed which opened on the street, lettering a tombstone with a mallet and graver. He had been mason before he became fisherman, and was handy with his tools; so that if anyone wanted a headstone set up in the churchyard, he went to Ratsey to get it done.
Surely the lamb, emblem at once pastoral and sacred, ought to enter into any monument to Wordsworth; but that gray headstone, with its catalogue of dates, those stern iron railings were these fit memorials of one whose soul so loved nature's loveliness? After Mr.
He thrust her aside and strode out through the door. On the farther side of the grave stood Drew, his grey head bare, and looking past him Anthony saw the snow-clad tops of the Little Brother, grey also in the light of the evening. And the trees whose branches interwove above the grave grey also with moss. The trees, the mountain, the old headstone, the man they blended into a whole.
Why can't you, as Mr Headstone said to me this very evening about another matter, leave well alone? What we have got to do, is, to turn our faces full in our new direction, and keep straight on. 'And never look back? Not even to try to make some amends? 'You are such a dreamer, said the boy, with his former petulance.
What do you think, Miss Matthews?" Miss Matthews said she liked to see a handsome headstone. "After all, one honours them that way. It's all one can do for them, isn't it." "Oh, Miss Matthews, all?" Several ladies were shocked. "What about one's prayers for the dead?" "I don't pray for the dead," said Miss Matthews, who was a protestant, and did not attend the large church in the next street.
Why, we find that my sister is already being taught, without our knowing it. We find that while my sister gives an unwilling and cold ear to our schemes for her advantage I, her brother, and Mr Headstone, the most competent authority, as his certificates would easily prove, that could be produced she is wilfully and willingly profiting by other schemes.
Poking about on the edge of the clearing, in the shadow of some big pines which the lumbermen had spared, I came suddenly upon the most unlikely thing of all in that wilderness, miles from any human habitation a burying-ground! Two mounds, each with a weather-beaten board for a headstone, were all it contained; just heaps of sand with a few withered shrubs upon them.
'I am not in the humour for consideration, or for nonsense of any sort, replied the boy. 'What have you been doing? Why has Mr Headstone gone from us in that way? 'He asked me you know he asked me to be his wife, Charley. 'Well? said the boy, impatiently. 'And I was obliged to tell him that I could not be his wife.
"Queer the women folks have never fixed this place up a little," said Peter Knight, standing waist-deep in the grave, with John. "Most places I've been, women keep the graves like they would a little garden." Charleton Falkner, resting on a neighboring headstone, smiled sardonically. "Lost Chief women have enough to do without dolling up graves." Cold sweat stood on Doug's forehead.
'A pert crooked little chit, Mr Headstone! I knew she would put herself in the way, if she could, and would be sure to strike in with something impertinent. It was on that account that I proposed our going to the City to-night and meeting my sister. 'So I supposed, said Bradley, getting his gloves on his nervous hands as he walked. 'So I supposed.
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