. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ndjeIavaisquitte il mavait reconduitjusquacet escalier, marchant peniblement, etil avait crie^ sa femme: Surtout, fais bien voir a Hugo tous mes garde me dit: II mourra au point du jour. Je redescendis, emportantdans ma pensee cette figure livide: en traversant le salon, je retrouvai le busteimmobile, impassible, altier et rayonnant vaguement et je comparai la mort aTimmortalite. II mourut dans la nuit. II avait cinquante-et-un ans. On Ienterra le mercredi. Le
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ndjeIavaisquitte il mavait reconduitjusquacet escalier, marchant peniblement, etil avait crie^ sa femme: Surtout, fais bien voir a Hugo tous mes garde me dit: II mourra au point du jour. Je redescendis, emportantdans ma pensee cette figure livide: en traversant le salon, je retrouvai le busteimmobile, impassible, altier et rayonnant vaguement et je comparai la mort aTimmortalite. II mourut dans la nuit. II avait cinquante-et-un ans. On Ienterra le mercredi. Le convoi traversa Paris et alia par les boule-vards au Pere-Lachaise. Nous fimes tout le trajet a pied. Je marchais adroite en tete de cercueil, tenant un des glands dargent du poele. AlexandreDumas de Iautre cote. Ouand nous parvinmes a la fosse, il y avait une fouleimmense. On descendit le cercueil dans la fosse qui etait voisine de CharlesNodier et de Casimir Delavigne. Le pretre dit la derniere priere et je pro-non9ai quelques paroles. Pendant que je parlais, le soleil baissait. Authority: Victor Hugo, Choses TllK, DlKK tlK WELLINGTON (AS AN iiLD NL\N).From an old engramrig. No. 86 The Death of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of ist May 1769. Died 14th September 1852. THOMAS CARLYLE in his diary under date 25 June 1850 writes: By far the most interesting figure present at Lady Ashburtons ballwas the old Duke of Wellington, who appeared between twelve andone, slowly gliding through the rooms. Truly a beautiful old man; I hadnever seen till now how beautiful nor what an expression of graceful sym-plicity, veracity, and nobleness there is about the old hero when you see himclose at hand. His very size had hitherto deceived me. He is of short slightfigure, about five feet eight inches, of good breadth however, and all muscleand bone. His legs, I think, must be short, for certainly on horseback I hadalways taken him to be tall. Eyes beautiful, light blue, full of mi
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