242 BURIAL. 



This we left for the offender to digest 

 as best he might, and proceeded on our 

 journey, stopping at Reading to dine, 

 and at Alton to sleep. 



At twelve the next day we reached 

 Petersfield, where the passing-bell mourn- 

 fully tolled as we went slowly down the 

 High Street, and stopped at the princi- 

 pal Inn, where some few who had known 

 the departed came to condole with my 

 sisters on the loss they had sustained, and 

 to recall her many excellent qualities. 



Arrived at the place of sepulture, we 

 were joined by my married sister and 

 her husband ; while the poor natives of 

 the village, who still retained a lively 

 remembrance of her unostentatious good- 

 ness and charity, came to pay their last 

 tribute of respect. 



