Roused by the bell tolling for evening service, Jack left the house.

On reaching the churchyard, he perceived the melancholy procession descending the hill.
Just then, a carriage drawn by four horses, drove furiously up to the Six Bells; but Jack was too much absorbed to take any notice of it.
At this moment, the bell began to toll in a peculiar manner, announcing the approach of the corpse.

The gate was opened; the coffin brought into the churchyard; and Jack, whose eyes were filled with tears, saw Mr.
Wood and Thames pass him, and followed at a foot's pace behind them.
Meanwhile, the clergyman, bare-headed and in his surplice, advanced to meet them.

Having read the three first verses of the impressive service appointed for the burial of the dead, he returned to the church, whither the coffin was carried through the south-western door, and placed in the centre of the aisle--Mr.Wood and Thames taking their places on either side of it, and Jack at a little distance behind.
Jack had been touched in the morning, but he was now completely prostrated.

In the midst of the holy place, which he had formerly profaned, lay the body of his unfortunate mother, and he could not help looking upon her untimely end as the retributive vengeance of Heaven for the crime he had committed.