[Edinburgh by Robert Louis Stevenson]@TWC D-Link bookEdinburgh CHAPTER V 15/16  
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  Accordingly we kept     the aforesaid Day and Hour, and doubled the Linen, and laid the Half     of it below them, their nether jaws being parted from their Heads;     but being young Men, their Teeth remained. 
  All were Witness to the     Holes in each of their Heads, which the Hangman broke with his     Hammer; and according to the Bigness of their Sculls, we laid the     Jaws to them, and drew the other Half of the Linen above them, and     stufft the Coffin with Shavings. 
  Some prest hard to go thorow the     chief Parts of the City as was done at the Revolution; but this we     refused, considering that it looked airy and frothy, to make such     Show of them, and inconsistent with the solid serious Observing of     such an affecting, surprizing unheard-of Dispensation: But took the     ordinary Way of other Burials from that Place, to wit, we went east     the Back of the Wall, and in at _Bristo-Port_, and down the Way to     the Head of the _Cowgate_, and turned up to the Church-yard, where     they were interred closs to the Martyrs Tomb, with the greatest     Multitude of People Old and Young, Men and Women, Ministers and     others, that ever I saw together.'  And so there they were at last, in 'their resting graves.'  So long as men do their duty, even if it be greatly in a misapprehension, they will be leading pattern lives; and whether or not they come to lie beside a martyrs' monument, we may be sure they will find a safe haven somewhere in the providence of God. 
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