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We rounded the bend at five o'clock; and thankful I was to put foot on terra firma once more. I was tired, but glad that I had gone. Sickbeds and Funerals Customs in the Treatment of the Sick Stately Funeral Processions The Funeral of a Poor Man Unsociableness of the Poor Wakes and Burial of the Rich A "Petrified" Man.
They, like opium-eaters, all sink into poverty, whereas if they had been kept up to the mark by the stern demands of life, they might have been great men. At the same time, these half-artists are delightful; men like them and cram them with praise; they even seem superior to the true artists, who are taxed with conceit, unsociableness, contempt of the laws of society.
All this apparent unsociableness is merely shyness the national characteristic of the Englishman. "The disciples of Confucius," observes Mr. Arthur Helps, "say that when in the presence of the prince, his manner displayed RESPECTFUL UNEASINESS. There could hardly be given any two words which more fitly describe the manner of most Englishmen when in society."
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