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The Emigrants Of Ahadarra

CHAPTER XIII
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As to religion, I have not yet made any determination among the variety that is abroad.

A man, however, can be at no loss; for as every one of them is the best, it matters little which of them he chooses.

I think it likely I shall go to church with your sister, should we ever do matrimony together.

To a man like me who's indifferent, respectability alone ought to determine." Clinton made no reply to this; and in a few minutes afterward they entered the churchyard, the coffin having been taken out of the hearse and borne on the shoulders of her four nearest relatives,--Tom M'Mahon, in deep silence and affliction, preceding it as chief mourner.
There is a prostrating stupor, or rather a kind of agonizing delirium that comes over the mind when we are forced to mingle with crowds, and have our ears filled with the voices of lamentation, the sounds of the death-bell, or the murmur of many people in conversation.

'Twas thus M'Mahon felt during the whole procession.


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