You can't file around a basket of ashes trying to look sorry for it and make a sight that is really solemn, because the solemner it is, the more it isn't--anybody can see that.

It would be so with one basket; it would be three times so with three.
Well, it stands to reason that if it wouldn't be solemn with one mourner, it wouldn't be with a procession--and there would be five thousand people here.

I don't know but it would be pretty near ridiculous; I think it would.

No, Mulberry, they can't lie in state--it would be a mistake.
Give that up and think of something else." So he gave it up; and not reluctantly, when he had thought it over and realized how right her instinct was.

He concluded to merely sit up with the remains just himself and Hawkins.