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The House by the Church-Yard

CHAPTER I
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She had a long hooked nose; and her eyes were open.

For, as he was told, she died in her sleep, and was quite cold and stiff when they found her in the morning.

He went down and saw the coffin to-day, half an hour after meeting his reverence.' The rector consulted his great warming-pan of a watch.

It was drawing near eleven.

He fell into a reverie, and rambled slowly up and down the aisle, with his hands behind his back, and his dripping hat in them, swinging nearly to the flags,--now lost in the darkness--now emerging again, dim, nebulous, in the foggy light of the lanterns.


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