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Hitherto Lucy had sat as rigid as a
stone, but as she listened to her own praises she moved uneasily in her
seat, and once put up her hand deprecatingly as if imploring him to
stop. When at last the services were over, and the curious ones had
taken their last look at the dead, and the undertaker came forward to
close the coffin-lid, her mind, which had been strained to its utmost,
gave way, and not realizing what she did or meant to do, she arose
suddenly, and gliding swiftly past her father, stepped to the side of
the coffin, and throwing back her heavy crape vail; stooped and kissed
the eyelids of her brother, saying as she did so:
"Dear Robbie, can you see me now, and do you know what I am going to
do?"
There was a glitter in her eyes which told that she was half-crazed, and
her father arose to lead her to her seat beside him; but she waved him
back authoritatively, and in a clear, distinct voice, which rang like a
bell through the church, said to the astonished people:
"Wait a little. There is something I must tell you.


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