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Wilcox walked out of King's Cross between her husband and her daughter, listening to both of them. The funeral was over. The carriages rolled away through the soft mud, and only the poor remained. They approached to the newly-dug shaft and looked their last at the coffin, now almost hidden beneath the spadefuls of clay. It was their moment.
And having relieved his mind thus, he proceeded to dig again, with a certain vigour that showed his somewhat irritable temper was ruffled. Clement gazed at him with a puzzled but gently reproachful eye, for the tone was rude, and the words unintelligible. Good-natured, though crusty, Jorian had not thrown up three spadefuls ere he became ashamed of it himself.
Here, after turning up a few spadefuls of earth, he struck upon a stone. Lifting it, he disclosed a hole about a foot square. The old man who presided at the meeting thrust his hands into this hole and gently lifted out a thick volume, which he laid reverently upon a flat rock that formed a sort of natural table in front of him.
When Lucien's body was lowered into the grave, Jacques Collin fell in a dead faint. This strong man could not endure the light rattle of the spadefuls of earth thrown by the gravediggers on the coffin as a hint for their payment. Just then two men of the corps of Public Safety came up; they recognized Jacques Collin, lifted him up, and carried him to a hackney coach.
"There's a something down here, that's certain," he panted out between the spadefuls, "but what it is goodness knows. All I can say is that it's a something." "Let me come too, Tom," I cried excitedly. "No, I shan't, Mas'r Harry!" he exclaimed. "There ain't room for both of us to work at once, and we shall only be tripping one another up. Let me work a spell, and then you can take a turn."
New Yorkers and Ohioans vied in filling a wheelbarrow with successive spadefuls, and a happy citizen of Chillicothe had the honor of wheeling it away and dumping it over a bank. He was the captain of a company of militia, and the crowd was so great that a squadron of cavalry had to keep a space for the speakers in the midst of their hollow square.
At last, after quarter of an hour of mummery and remonstrances, so that the roots of the cabbage may not be cut and it can be transplanted without injury, while spadefuls of earth are thrown into the faces of the bystanders, woe to him who does not step aside quickly enough; though he were a bishop or a prince, he must receive the baptism of earth, the païen pulls the rope, the païenne holds her apron, and the cabbage falls majestically amid the cheers of the spectators.
Say, Joey, look at him listening like he was counting the number of spadefuls it takes to make a horse's grave. He's thinking, old Cuddy is, and scheming what he'd like to do. I wouldn't ride him from here to Break-Neck, not for a thousand dollars."
De Witt Clinton, the presiding genius of the Erie Canal, was invited to Ohio to play godfather to these northward arteries which should ultimately swell the profits of the commission merchants of New York City, and amid the cheers of thousands he lifted the first spadefuls of earth in each undertaking. The Ohio Canal, which was opened in 1833, had a marked effect upon the commerce of Lake Erie.
"I'm no company for gentle-fowk, sir." "Come and show me in which of these graves you would like to have her laid," I said. He yielded and followed me. Coombes had not dug many spadefuls before he saw what had been plain enough that ten such men as he could not dig the graves in time. But there was plenty of help to be had from the village and the neighbouring farms.
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