This was the only adornment the coffin possessed, for most of the flowers from the West End had been bought by the townspeople for the Consul's funeral.

Marianne would otherwise have had plenty.
At length the people began to stream out of the church; those who were with Marianne had to wait till the main procession arrived at the cemetery.

The seamen then, after moistening their palms in the usual way, went on with their burden with renewed vigour.

There was no change from the five-kroner note.
No one could remember to have seen so long a funeral procession as that which followed the young Consul.

It reached almost from the church door, to the gate of the cemetery, which lay in a distant part of the town.