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When the grave had been filled with earth the little party turned back toward the cabin, and Esmeralda, still weeping copiously for the two she had never heard of before today, and who had been dead twenty years, chanced to glance toward the harbor.
When we reached the grave, it looked a very little spot in that snow-covered waste.
The whisper died wholly out, now, for the three men had reached the grave and stood within a few feet of the boys' hiding-place.
'He took off his coat, set down his lantern, and getting into the unfinished grave, worked at it for an hour or so with right good- will.
"But not knowing the right name, by what happy inspiration did you find the right grave? The man who told me what the name was said it had been cut on the headboard."
Fairlie's grave, and to examine the ground about it."
"This time last night you never thought you'd be digging Pat's grave to-night," sighed Felicity.
Nicholas road, was a grave, and it had a tragic story.
Her gentle and timid spirit sinks within her; and, turning away from the window, she sits down in the great chair and wonders whereabouts in the wilderness her friends will dig her grave.
"For it was you," added this pitiless friend of the dead, - "it was you who sped these two men to the grave."
She drew near and asked one of them whose grave it was.
Seated, as in life, with his form and limbs arranged in grave and decent composure, Uncas appeared, arrayed in the most gorgeous ornaments that the wealth of the tribe could furnish.
Come, children; we have the grave to make, and then to hunt his murderer."
Carey often stopped at the bank to deliver a message to Josiah Graves, the manager, who was choir-master, treasurer, and churchwarden.
"Because," said the Man Leaning on a Spade, "I belong to the Gravediggers' National Extortion Society, and we have decided to limit the production of graves and get more money for the reduced output.