The fact that there was a good deal of social gossip like this, that
appointments for picnics and other functions were being made, would go
alone to prove the advantages of a funeral of this kind, quite apart
from the universal relief experienced when the coffin was lowered into
the earth, and bystanders realized that the lady was at last definitely
transferred into Abraham's bosom.
CHAPTER XXXIV
All Nepenthe had stood by the side of the grave--all, save only Mr.
Keith. He remained at home. And this was rather odd, for it is the
right thing to attend people's funerals, and Mr. Keith prided himself
upon always doing the right thing. It was his boast to pass for a
typical Anglo-Saxon, the finest race on earth, when all is said and
done; and he used to point out that you could not be a typical
Anglo-Saxon unless you respected yourself, and you could not respect
yourself unless you respected simultaneously your neighbours and their
habits, however perverse they might sometimes appear.
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