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Only last year they were mourning over a poor fox like a Christian, a poor fox that had been caught in a trap, and now they would not leave a fox in the country, because the gentlemen, they think, are fond of them. The gentlemen are their enemies, and therefore they will spite them. They will drive every gentleman out of the country, and where will they be then?"
All people looked upon themselves as ruined and swallowed up; the inhabitants of two-thirds of all Germany put themselves into mourning for him; when the ministers mentioned him in their sermons or prayers, whole congregations would burst out into tears.
"You forget that I've only got one leg, so I can't swim as I used, and you've got to come and take care I don't get drowned. 'O weep for Adonais he is dead! How angry Aunt Charlotte would be. And then she'd cry, poor dear, and go into hideous mourning for her poor Austin. Come along, Lubin but wait, I must just go and get a couple of towels. Oh, I'm simply mad for the water.
"Yes, she is an Englishwoman, but the widow of an Italian the Contessa di Castagneto." "Oh, but I know her!" said Papillon. "I remember her in Rome two or three years ago. A deuced pretty woman, very much admired, but she was in deep mourning then, and went out very little. I wished she had gone out more. There were lots of men ready to fall at her feet." "You were in Rome, then, some time back?
So home to supper, and glad that the dirty bricklayers' work of my office is done, and home to supper and to bed. Mighty cold, and with my wife to church, where a lazy sermon. Here was my Lady Batten in her mourning at church, but I took no notice of her. At noon comes Michell and his wife to dine with us, and pretty merry. I glad to see her still.
Some of their mutilations were ghastly and my heart sickened to look at them, but they would not appear to receive any pain from them." From I. L. Mahan, United States Indian Agent for the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Red Cliff, Wisconsin, the following detailed account of mourning has been received. There is probably no people that exhibit more sorrow and grief for their dead than they.
Indeed, one day he reached a house of mourning in such season that he found the rooms quite empty, and was forced to wait until the bereaved family should assemble. There they sat, he and his wife, a portentous couple in their dead black and anticipatory gloom, until even their patience had well-nigh fled.
"Tell 'em to wear mourning," he said pessimistically. "There's always a fatality or two. If there wasn't a fair chance of it nothing would make 'em sit for hours watching dusty streaks going by." The race was scheduled for Wednesday. On Sunday night the cars began to come in. On Monday Tish took us all, including Bettina, to the track.
In the house of Roantree, in High-street, who was also convicted of treason-felony, a harp was displayed in one of the drawingroom windows by a lady dressed in deep mourning, and the procession loudly cheered as it passed on its route. Standing at the corner of Christchurch-place, a fine view could be had of the procession as it approached Winetavern-street from High-street.
The mourning banner was already waving on the roof of the Town Hall, towards which he turned. The noble youth was drowned while bathing in the Rhine. It seemed as if a frost had blighted a blooming garden. The gay bustle in the market place was paralysed.
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