And now she was hopeless and utterly disconsolate at the loss of her little Katy, but wondering all the time whether Isa could not have fixed her bonnet so that it would not have looked quite so plain.
The old minister preached on "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth." I am afraid he said some things which the liberalism of to-day would think unfit--we all have heresies nowadays; it is quite the style.
But at least the old man reminded them that there were better investments than corner-lots, and that even mortgages with waivers in them will be brought into judgment.

His solemn words could not have failed entirely of doing good.
But the solemn funeral services were over; the speculator in claims dried his eyes, and that very afternoon assigned a claim, to which he had no right, to a simple-minded immigrant for a hundred dollars.

Minorkey was devoutly thankful that his own daughter had escaped, and that he could go on getting mortgages with waivers in them, and Plausaby turned his attention to contrivances for extricating himself from the embarrassments of his situation.
The funeral was over.

That is the hardest time of all.

You can bear up somehow, so long as the arrangements and cares and melancholy tributes of the obsequies last.