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In Which Becky Revisits the Halls of Her Ancestors

           Bute’scurate,asmartyoungfellowfromOxford,andSirPittCrawleycomposedbetweenthemanappropriateLatinepitaphforthelatelamentedBaronet,andtheformerpreachedaclassicalsermon,exhortingthesurvivorsnottogivewaytogriefandinformingtheminthemostrespectfultermsthattheyalsowouldbeonedaycalledupontopassthatgloomyandmysteriousportalwhichhadjustclosedupontheremainsoftheirlamentedbrother.Thenthetenantrymountedonhorsebackagain,orstayedandrefreshedthemselvesattheCrawleyArms.Then,afteralunchintheservants’hallatQueen’sCrawley,thegentry’scarriageswheeledofftotheirdifferentdestinations:thentheundertaker’smen,takingtheropes,palls,velvets,ostrichfeathers,andothermortuaryproperties,clamberedupontheroofofthehearseandrodeofftoSouthampton.Theirfacesrelapsedintoanaturalexpressionasthehorses,clearingthelodge-gates,gotintoabriskertrotontheopenroad;andsquadsofthemmighthavebeenseen,specklingwithblackthepublic-houseentrances,withpewter-potsflashinginthesunshine.SirPitt’sinvalidchairwaswheeledawayintoatool-houseinthegarden;theoldpointerusedtohowlsometimesatfirst,buttheseweretheonlyaccentsofgriefwhichwereheardintheHallofwhichSirPittCrawley,Baronet,hadbeenmasterforsomethreescoreyears.

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