"That's the tenth 'Ah hum' you've cast loose in a mile.

I know we're bound to a funeral but there ain't no need of tollin' the bell all the way.

I don't like it and I don't think Marcellus would neither, if he could hear you." "Perhaps he can hear us, Shadrach," suggested his companion, mildly.
"Perhaps he's here with us now; who can tell ?" "Humph! Well, if he is then I KNOW he don't like it.

Marcellus never made any fuss whatever happened, and he wouldn't make any at his own funeral no more than at anybody else's.

That wasn't his way.