“You must bear up - you must bear up, my dear Dudley,” said the gray-haired man, as the mourning-coach lumbered along the uneven paving of Olney High-street. He took his seat in one of the coaches, accompanied by his uncle, a gray-haired old farmer, and the village attorney. The funeral service ended, the chief mourner walked slowly through the churchyard, followed by the seven or eight gentlemen who had been present at the ceremony, The grief of that chief mourner was evident to all his hollow eyes were dry and tearless, and he walked along the narrow path, looking straight before him, with an air of gloomy abstraction. No gleam of sunshine relieved the dull gray of the September sky.Ī cluster of villagers and village children, grouped together at one angle of the irregular stone-wall, drew their wet clothes closer round them, and shivered as if this September had been January.įrom one side of the churchyard sounded the monotonous voice of the curate, reading the funeral service.Īt the white gate, on the other side of the church, waited three mourning-coaches, surrounded by another group of village children, who, regardless of the perpetual rain, stood staring open-mouthed at the long-tailed black horses and the solemn-visaged charioteers. The Last Of Gervoise PalgraveĪ drizzling rain fell upon the long grass and the moss-grown tombstones of the churchyard of Olney, a village in Lincolnshire, Every now and then, beaten down by this incessant rain, a dead leaf fell from one of a row of sycamores, which bordered the low churchyard wall, and dropped heavily upon the graves beneath the trees. The Parting Of The Foster-BrothersĬhapter 23. Hidden In The Dead Woman’s HandĬhapter 22. The King Is Dead: Long Live The King!Ĭhapter 15. The Gentleman Jockey Who Rode DevilshoofĬhapter 6. In Which A Secret Is RevealedĬhapter 6. BROWSE the site for other works by this authorĪn ebook published by Project Gutenberg AustraliaĬhapter 1.
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