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looked around and see the coffin, over in the corner on two chairs; so then, him

and the duke, with a hand across each other's shoulder, and t'other hand to their

eyes, walked slow and solemn over there, everybody dropping back to give them

room, and all the talk and noise stopping, people saying "Sh!" and all the men

taking their hats off and drooping their heads, so you could a heard a pin fall.

And when they got there, they bent over

and looked in the coffin, and took one ssssssssss

sight, and then they bust out a crying ssssssssss

so you could a heard them to Orleans, ssssssssss

most: and then they put their arms ssssssssss

around each other's necks, and hung ssssssssss

their chins over each other's shoulders; ssssssssss

and then for three minutes, or maybe ssssssssss

four, I never see two men leak the way ssssssssss

they done. And mind you, everybody ssssssssss

was doing the same; and the place was ssssssssss

that damp I never see anything like it. ssssssssss

Then one of them got on one side of the ssssssssss

coffin, and t'other on t'other side, and ssssssssss

they kneeled down and rested their fore- ssssssssss

heads on the coffin, and let on to pray ssssssssss

all to theirselves. Well, when it come ssssssssss

to that, it worked the crowd like you ssssssssss

never see anything like it, and so every- ssssssssss

body broke down and went to sobbing right out loud -- the poor girls, too; and

every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed

them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and

looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and then busted out

and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never

see anything so disgusting. ssssssssss

Well, by-and-by the king he gets up and comes forward a little, and works

himself up and slobbers out a speech, all full of tears and flapdoodle about its

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