while there was no longer any doubt that peter was dead with his right hand clasping the keys and his left hand lying on the heap of notes and gold book iv three love problems chapter ist such men as this are feathers and no weight no force d bat levity is too and makes the sum of weight for power finds its place in lack of power advance is and the driven ship may ran because the s thought lacked force to balance it was on a morning of may that peter was buried in the neighbourhood of may was not always and sunny and on this particular morning a chill wind was blowing the blossoms from the surrounding gardens on to the green of churchyard swiftly clouds only now and then allowed a gleam to light up any ol whether ugly or beautiful that happened to stand its golden shower in the churchyard the objects were remarkably various for there was a little country crowd waiting to see the the news had spread that it was to be a big burying the old gentleman had left written directions about everything and meant to have a funeral beyond his this was true for old had not been a p a whose passions had all been devoured by the ever lean and ever hungry passion of saving and who would drive a bargain with bis beforehand he loved money but he also loved to spend it in gratifying his peculiar tastes and perhaps he loved it best of all as a means of making others feel his power more or less if any one will here contend that there must have been traits of goodness in old i will not presume to deny this but i must observe that goodness is of a modest nature and when much in early life by vices is apt to retire into extreme privacy so that it is more y believed in by those who a selfish old gentleman than by those who form the judgments based on his personal acquaintance in any case he had been bent on a and on persons bid to it who would rather have stayed at home he had even desired that female relatives should follow him to the grave and poor sister had taken a journey for this purpose from the she and jane would have been altogether cheered in a tearful manner by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been fond of their presence when he should have become a if the sign had not been made by being extended to mrs whose expense in handsome seemed to imply the most hopes by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly sue was not a blood relation but of that generally objectionable class called wife s kin we are all of us imaginative in some form or other for images are the brood of desire and poor old who laughed much at the way in which others themselves did not escape the fellowship of illusion in writing the pro for his burial he certainly make clear to himself that his pleasure in the little drama of which it formed a part was confined to anticipation in over the he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid presence and so far as he was with a future life it was with one of gratification inside his coffin thus old was imaginative after his fashion however the three mourning were filled according to the written orders of the deceased there were on horseback with the richest and and even the had of woe which were of a good well quality the black procession when dismounted looked the larger for the of the churchyard the heavy human and the black shivering in the wind seemed to toll of a world strangely with the lightly dropping blossoms and the of on the the clergyman who met the procession was mr � also according to the request of peter prompted as usual by reasons a contempt for whom he always called he was resolved to be buried by a clergyman mr was out of the question not merely because ne declined of this sort but because had an especial dislike to mm as the of his own parish who had a on the land in the shape of also as the of morning sermons which the old man being in his and not at all sleepy had been obliged to sit through with an inward he had an objection to a parson stuck up above his head preaching to him but his relations with mr had been of a different kind the stream which ran through mr s land took its course through s also so mr was a parson who had had to ask a favour instead of preaching moreover ne was one of the high gentry living four miles away from book iv love problems and was thus exalted to an equal sky with the of the county and other vaguely r as necessary to the eastern of things there would oe a in being buried by mr whose v y name offered a fine opportunity for if you this � conferred on the of and was the reason why mrs made one of the group that watched old s funeral from an upper window of the she was not fond of visiting that house but she liked as she said to see of strange animals such as there would be at this funeral and she had persuaded sir james and the lady to drive the and herself to in order mat the visit might be altogether pleasant i will go anywhere with you mrs had said but i don t like oh my dear when you have a in your family you must your tastes i did that very 