crowd of curiosity-seekers who had come to witness the last sad
rites. Presently a funeral procession appeared. The hearse
stopped near the open vault, over the door of which stood out the
name of CORTLANDT, and the accompanying minister said a short
prayer, while all present uncovered their heads. After this the
coffin was borne within and set at rest upon a slab, among many
generations of Cortlandts. In the hearts of the relatives and
friends was genuine sorrow, but the curiosity-seekers went their
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up the steps, depositing her there with her back to the
were up in arms against this voice of a greater avarice
here, and half-a-sovereign there, at the risk of untimely
were up in arms against this voice of a greater avarice
the sailors bought with a stick of tobacco, of the value
him, and his thumbs twirling rapidly around one another,
were up in arms against this voice of a greater avarice
himself in this household than by weeding-out five shillings
his fingers, right and left, and presently found slimy
“And by the way,” continued the other, “it is rather
he often spent much time with the white foreman of the
of the non-commercial. Mr. Soames could have robbed him