One of them , which had arrivedarrivetoo late for the funeralfuneral, lay in its cardboard box on the hall-table .
They wentgointo the parlour my mother had comecomefrom , the firefirein the best room on the other side of the passage not being lighted -- not having been lighted , indeed , since my father ’s funeralfuneral; and when they were both seatedseat, and Miss Betsey said nothing , my mother , after vainly tryingtryto restrain herself , began to crycry.
CHAPTER I THE CONSUL ’S YARN A week had passed since the funeralfuneralof my poor boy Harry , and one evening I was in my room walkingwalkup and down and thinkingthink, when there was a ringringat the outer door .
All this while Curtis and Good had been silent , feeling , I suppose , that they had nothing to say that could do me any good , and content to give me the comfort of their presence and unspoken sympathy ; for it was only their second visitvisitsince the funeralfuneral.
When the Doctor wentgoin to his favourite seclusion , tired and heated and sad -- for even on the day of his wife 's funeralfuneralthe favourite doctor of Carlingford had patients to think of -- the very heaviness of his thoughtsthoughtgave warmthwarmthto his indignationindignation.