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CHAPTER XLVII.
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Somebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. I cannot say which class we buried with most eclat1 in our “flush times,” the distinguished2 public benefactor3 or the distinguished rough—possibly the two chief grades or grand divisions of society honored their illustrious dead about equally; and hence, no doubt the philosopher I have quoted from would have needed to see two representative funerals in Virginia before forming his estimate of the people.
There was a grand time over Buck4 Fanshaw when he died. He was a representative citizen. He had “killed his man”—not in his own quarrel, it is true, but in defence of a stranger unfairly beset5 by numbers. He had kept a sumptuous6 saloon. He had been the proprietor7 of a dashing helpmeet whom he could have discarded without the formality of a divorce. He had held a high position in the fire department and been a very Warwick in politics. When he died there was great lamentation8 throughout the town, but especially in the vast bottom-stratum of society.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium9 of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic10, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death “by the visitation of God.” What could the world do without juries?
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eclat
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benefactor
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sumptuous
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lamentation
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arsenic
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brotherhood
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flannel
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bosom
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helping
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adviser
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obstructing
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metaphor
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coffin
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| 羽毛( plume的名词复数 ); 羽毛饰; 羽毛状物; 升上空中的羽状物 | |
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browsing
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prance
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strictly
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dependence
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secular
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alley
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trumpet
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shutter
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disturbances
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intentional
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corpse
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plumed
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brass
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attained
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inborn
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generosity
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