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1It was the first time that a grave had opened in my road of life, and the gap it made in the smooth ground was
2wonderful. The figure of my sister in her chair by the kitchen fire, haunted me night and day. That the place could
3possibly be, without her, was something my mind seemed unable to compass; and whereas she had seldom or never been in my
4thoughts of late, I had now the strangest ideas that she was coming towards me in the street, or that she would
5presently knock at the door. In my rooms too, with which she had never been at all associated, there was at once the
6blankness of death and a perpetual suggestion of the sound of her voice or the turn of her face or figure, as if she
7were still alive and had been often there. Whatever my fortunes might have been, I could scarcely have recalled my
8sister with much tenderness. But I suppose there is a shock of regret which may exist without much tenderness. Under its
9influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against
10the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued
11Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity. Having written to Joe, to offer him consolation, and to assure him that
12I would come to the funeral, I passed the intermediate days in the curious state of mind I have glanced at. I went down
13early in the morning, and alighted at the Blue Boar in good time to walk over to the forge. It was fine summer weather
14again, and, as I walked along, the times when I was a little helpless creature, and my sister did not spare me, vividly
15returned. But they returned with a gentle tone upon them that softened even the edge of Tickler. For now, the very
16breath of the beans and clover whispered to my heart that the day must come when it would be well for my memory that
17others walking in the sunshine should be softened as they thought of me. At last I came within sight of the house, and
18saw that Trabb and Co. had put in a funereal execution and taken possession. Two dismally absurd persons, each
19ostentatiously exhibiting a crutch done up in a black bandage,--as if that instrument could possibly communicate any
20comfort to anybody,--were posted at the front door; and in one of them I recognised a postboy discharged from the Boar
21for turning a young couple into a sawpit on their bridal morning, in consequence of intoxication rendering it necessary
22for him to ride his horse clasped round the neck with both arms. All the children of the village, and most of the women,
23were admiring these sable warders and the closed windows of the house and forge; and as I came up, one of the two
24warders (the postboy) knocked at the door,--implying that I was far too much exhausted by grief to have strength
25remaining to knock for myself. Another sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the
26door, and showed me into the best parlour. Here, Mr. Trabb had taken unto himself the best table, and had got all the
27leaves up, and was holding a kind of black Bazaar, with the aid of a quantity of black pins. At the moment of my
28arrival, he had just finished putting somebody's hat into black long-clothes, like an African baby; so he held out his
29hand for mine. But I, misled by the action, and confused by the occasion, shook hands with him with every testimony of
30warm affection. Poor dear Joe, entangled in a little black cloak tied in a large bow under his chin, was seated apart at
31the upper end of the room; where, as chief mourner, he had evidently been stationed by Trabb. When I bent down and said
32to him, "Dear Joe, how are you?" he said, "Pip, old chap, you knowed her when she were a fine figure of a--" and clasped
33my hand and said no more. Biddy, looking very neat and modest in her black dress, went quietly here and there, and was
34very helpful. When I had spoken to Biddy, as I thought it not a time for talking I went and sat down near Joe, and there
35began to wonder in what part of the house it--she--my sister--was. The air of the parlour being faint with the smell of
36sweet-cake, I looked about for the table of refreshments; it was scarcely visible until one had got accustomed to the
37gloom, but there was a cut-up plum cake upon it, and there were cut-up oranges, and sandwiches, and biscuits, and two
38decanters that I knew very well as ornaments, but had never seen used in all my life; one full of port, and one of
39sherry. Standing at this table, I became conscious of the servile Pumblechook in a black cloak and several yards of
40hatband, who was alternately stuffing himself, and making obsequious movements to catch my attention. The moment he
41succeeded, he came over to me (breathing sherry and crumbs), and said in a subdued voice, "May I, dear sir?" and did. I
42then descried Mr. and Mrs. Hubble; the last-named in a decent speechless paroxysm in a corner. We were all going to
43"follow," and were all in course of being tied up separately (by Trabb) into ridiculous bundles. "Which I meantersay,
44Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called "formed" in the parlour, two and two,--and it was
45dreadfully like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; "which I meantersay, sir, as I would in preference have
46carried her to the church myself, along with three or four friendly ones wot come to it with willing harts and arms, but
47it were considered wot the neighbours would look down on such and would be of opinions as it were wanting in respect."
48"Pocket-handkerchiefs out, all!" cried Mr. Trabb at this point, in a depressed business-like voice.
49"Pocket-handkerchiefs out! We are ready!" So we all put our pocket-handkerchiefs to our faces, as if our noses were
50bleeding, and filed out two and two; Joe and I; Biddy and Pumblechook; Mr. and Mrs. Hubble. The remains of my poor
51sister had been brought round by the kitchen door, and, it being a point of Undertaking ceremony that the six bearers
52must be stifled and blinded under a horrible black velvet housing with a white border, the whole looked like a blind
53monster with twelve human legs, shuffling and blundering along, under the guidance of two keepers,--the postboy and his
54comrade. The neighbourhood, however, highly approved of these arrangements, and we were much admired as we went through
55the village; the more youthful and vigorous part of the community making dashes now and then to cut us off, and lying in
56wait to intercept us at points of vantage. At such times the more exuberant among them called out in an excited manner
57on our emergence round some corner of expectancy, "Here they come!" "Here they are!" and we were all but cheered. In
58this progress I was much annoyed by the abject Pumblechook, who, being behind me, persisted all the way as a delicate
59attention in arranging my streaming hatband, and smoothing my cloak. My thoughts were further distracted by the
60excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and vainglorious in being members of so
61distinguished a procession. And now the range of marshes lay clear before us, with the sails of the ships on the river
62growing out of it; and we went into the churchyard, close to the graves of my unknown parents, Philip Pirrip, late of
63this parish, and Also Georgiana, Wife of the Above. And there, my sister was laid quietly in the earth, while the larks
64sang high above it, and the light wind strewed it with beautiful shadows of clouds and trees.
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