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"What does he want there?"

"He has gone to get her authority to have the corpse dug up again and

put somewhere else"

"Why won't he let it remain here?"

"You know, sir, people have queer notions about dead folk We see

soht for five

years, and this young gentleround; it will be better in the new part"

"What do you call the new part?"

"The new plots of ground that are for sale, there to the left If the

cemetery had always been kept like it is now, there wouldn't be the like

of it in the world; but there is still plenty to do before it will be

quite all it should be And then people are so queer!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that there are people who carry their pride even here Now, this

Demoiselle Gautier, it appears she lived a bit free, if you'll excuseso Poor lady, she's dead now; there's no more of her left than

of theainst We water them every day

Well, when the relatives of the folk that are buried beside her found

out the sort of person she hat do you think they said? That they

would try to keep her out froround somewhere apart for these sort of women, like there is for the

poor Did you ever hear of such a thing? I gave it to theht, I