Spring Breeze

Spring Breeze
Sweet Nothings
The Abduction of Psyche
The British Are Coming
With the elusiveness of her curious double nature, however, Sue did not stand still for any further greeting, though it wanted some time to the burial. A pathos so unusually compounded as that which attached to this hour was unlikely to repeat itself for years, if ever, and Jude would have paused, and meditated, and conversed. But Sue either saw it not at all, or, seeing it more than he, would not allow herself to feel it. ¡¡¡¡ The sad and simple ceremony was soon over, their progress to the church being almost at a trot, the bustling undertaker having a more important funeral an hour later, three miles off. Drusilla was put into the new ground, quite away from her ancestors. Sue and Jude had gone side by side to the grave, and now sat down to tea in the familiar house; their lives united at least in this last attention to the dead. ¡¡¡¡ "She was opposed to marriage, from first to last, you say?" murmured Sue. ¡¡¡¡ "Yes. Particularly for members of our family." ¡¡¡¡ Her eyes met his, and remained on him awhile. ¡¡¡¡ "We are rather a sad family, don't you think, Jude?" ¡¡¡¡ "She said we made bad husbands and wives. Certainly we make unhappy ones. At all events, I do, for one!"