Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​​​‌⁠DR. SEWARD’S DIARY—continued.

The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity. Even the woman who performed the last offices for the dead remarked to me, in a confidential, brothe