Mark has covered him now with a fair Portland slab.

He took Claude Mellot to it this winter before church time, and stood over it long with a puzzled look, as if dimly discovering that there were more things in heaven and earth than were dreamed of in his philosophy.
"Wonderful fellow he was, after all! Mary shall read us out some of his verses to-night.

But, I say, why should people be born clever, only to make them all the more miserable ?" "Perhaps they learn the more, papa, by their sorrows," said quiet little Mary; "and so they are the gainers after all." And none of them having any better answer to give, they all three went into the church, to see if one could be found there.
And so Tom Thurnall, too, went Eastward-Ho, to take, like all the rest, what God might send..