Once he looked perplexedly at Paulina Maria, but she was singing hard, in a true strong voice, and did not heed him.

The strangers sat behind her.

There was a large man, lumbering and uncomfortable in his best clothes, a small woman, and three little girls, all dressed in blue delaine gowns and black silk mantillas and blue bonnets.
The minister had a strong conviction that these people should be mentioned in his prayer.

He gave his daughter Eliza a little nudge, and looked inquiringly at them and at her, but she shook her head slightly--she did not know who they were.

Her father had to content himself with vaguely alluding in his petition to all other relatives of this afflicted family.
During the eulogy upon the departed, which followed, he made also casual mention of the respect in which he was held by strangers as well as by his own towns-people.