75/126 Has the landlord said anything more to you? Don't stop crying here, my dear. Take the advice of a man familiar with funerals, and go home." I tried to take his advice, but it seemed like deserting Mary to go away when all the rest forsook her. Oh, how bare and cruel it was, without so much as a bit of green turf to soften it! Oh, how much harder it seemed to live than to die, when I stood alone looking at the heavy piled-up lumps of clay, and thinking of what was hidden beneath them! I was driven home by my own despairing thoughts. The sight of Sally lighting the fire in my room eased my heart a little. |