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Updated: September 19, 2025
"As we want to keep saying as we want to keep fighting our damnedest to make sure they won't," Tom explained. "Yes, that's it!" declared a chorus. "That's it, no matter what we pay!" declared Stransky. "We're not going back there except in hearses!" He swung his hand in a semicircle toward the distant hills, gold and purple in their dying foliage under the autumn sunlight.
When my eyes rested upon the paragraph I was in quest of, I sprang to my feet in ecstasy. The wound had not been fatal! Wold still lived! "In a twinkling I was dressed and on my way to my uncle's residence. Notwithstanding there was a dreadful epidemic in the city, and hearses and mourners were passing every few minutes, I felt within a buoyancy that defied the terrors of disease and death.
Ever and anon some snow fell noiselessly from a branch that had been too heavily burdened. But nothing else stirred. At the far end, some little while ago, a black tramping had passed by; some one was being buried beneath this snowy winding-sheet. And now another funeral train appeared on the left. Hearses and mourners went their way in silence, like shadows thrown upon a spotless linen cloth.
The spacious thoroughfare in a few minutes was filled with the dense array, which in close compact ranks pressed on, the women, youths, and children, bearing bravely the privations of the day, the bands preceding and following the hearses playing the Dead March, the solemn notes filling the air with mournful cadence.
The populace are, however, most respectful; rich and poor alike remove their hats when the funeral cortege is passing. In the provinces where there are no hearses, a funeral consists usually of a coffin carried on the shoulders of four men, and followed by a straggling concourse of mourners.
After a while we came to a broad road, full of good houses, and then the old driver cried "Ilford," and asked what part of it I wished to go to. I reached forward and told him, "10 Lennard's Row, Lennard's Green," and then sat back with a lighter heart. But after another little while I saw a great many funeral cars passing us, with the hearses empty, as if returning from a cemetery.
"Look here, Tessie," I said, "you go to the country for a week or two, and you'll have no more dreams about hearses. You pose all day, and when night comes your nerves are upset. You can't keep this up.
The methods employed for conveyance on common roads were shown by hand-barrows carts trucks drays farm wagons sprinkling carts freight wagons breaks, barges, wagonettes for pleasure parties omnibuses cabs hansoms pleasure carriages, coaches for four or six horses, Victorias, broughams, dog-carts, buggies, phaetons, etc.; besides sleighs snow shoes steam and electric carriages ambulances for the sick and injured hearses; furthermore, bicycles and tricycles rolling chairs for invalids baby carriages; in short, vehicles of every possible description.
The castle of Diernstein Richard Coeur de Lion and Marshal Lannes, The Emperor at the gates of Vienna The Archduchess Maria Louisa Facility of correspondence with England Smuggling in Hamburg Brown sugar and sand Hearses filled with sugar and coffee Embargo on the publication of news Supervision of the 'Hamburg Correspondant' Festival of Saint Napoleon Ecclesiastical adulation The King of Westphalia's journey through his States Attempt to raise a loan Jerome's present to me The present returned Bonaparte's unfounded suspicions.
Platoons of police led the column who were followed in carriages by the mayor, his cabinet, and the city council; then another platoon of police, followed by a long line of hearses, the black plumes of which seemed to wave in unison with the solemn tread of over a thousand workmen, acting as pall-bearers, walking in double file on either side of their dead comrades.
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