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Ye know Smiley, over yar, Jim Smiley, funniest man in the Bar? Well, Jim was jest telling the richest yarn about " "Smiley's a fool," interrupted a gloomy voice. "A particular skunk," added another in sepulchral accents. A silence followed these positive statements. The Old Man glanced quickly around the group. Then his face slowly changed.
I may mention here, that although there was always light enough to see my path and a few yards on every side of me, I never could find out the source of this sad sepulchral illumination. "In the wind's uproar, the sea's raging grim, And the sighs that are born in him." "From dreams of bliss shall men awake One day, but not to weep: The dreams remain; they only break The mirror of the sleep."
"'The gentlemen wish to know, sir, if you'd like summat to eat, as they're a goin' to have a morsel; we are getting into slack water now. "'Where are we? I replied, in a sepulchral voice. "'Off the Hook, sir; we have had a most splendid run, but I fear we'll catch it soon; there's some dirty weather to the westward. "'God grant it, said I, piously and in a low tone.
"You don't know anything about your Brigadier," he added in a sepulchral murmur, the echo of an empty canteen. "I have only been in this brigade a month, and I know more than you do, far, very far more, sorry to say it. He's a reformed clergyman. He's an apostatized minister." The Colonel's voice as he said this was solemn and sad enough to do credit to an undertaker.
The HUNENGRABER, formed of huge blocks of granite set up at right angles to each other, resemble the covered avenues of France and elsewhere; in the so-called RIESENBETTEN, or giant's beds, on the contrary, the sepulchral chamber is merely sunk in the ground. We must also mention the so-called GROTTE DES FEES, or fairy grotto, forming part of so many of the megalithic monuments of Provence.
Passion of Sudden Death! that once in youth I read and interpreted by the shadows of thy averted signs; Rapture of panic taking the shape which amongst tombs in churches I have seen, of woman bursting her sepulchral bonds of woman's Ionic form bending forward from the ruins of her grave with arching foot, with eyes upraised, with clasped adoring hands waiting, watching, trembling, praying, for the trumpet's call to rise from dust for ever!
"Now I behold a stranger at the same water-hole. He's alone he's looking for something. He rides in circles. He's off his horse and bending over What? A skeleton! Yes, it's the skeleton of one of them other Mexicans." Strange's voice became positively sepulchral as his spirit control took fuller possession of his earthly shell and as his visions resolved themselves into clearer outline. "See!
Amidst these ponderous tomes, surrounded by the venerable receptacles of old wisdom, breathing, instead of the free air of heaven, the sepulchral dust of antiquity, I have become assimilated to the objects around me; my very nature has undergone a metamorphosis of which Pythagoras never dreamed.
"Why don't he fire?" inquired Glenn, in a whisper. "It is not quite time yet," responded Roughgrove. "Dod! they'll crawl up presently, and jump over the fence," said Sneak. "Oh, goodness! I wish he'd shoot!" said Joe, in low, sepulchral tones, his head thrust between Sneak's legs, whither he had crawled unobserved, and was now peering out at the scene.
The sepulchral depths of the descent were dimly lighted by a silver lamp on the lowest step; and just below this lamp there was laid, wrapped in a flowing mantle of violet velvet, worked with fleurs-de-lis of gold, a catafalque resting on trestles of oak.
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