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sent were tied to the the wheels,
making it look like a chariot
of flowers. Round the coffin
were great branches of white
laburnum, and on the tops were
lovely copper-coloured roses
and quantities of maiden-
hair fern. Nora & Dolly in white
sat at the foot of the perambula,
Tor, and Theodore & Harry & I,
& the rest of the children were in
the green-house too. The
clergyman from London, Mr.
Farrington, an American, read
some beautiful poems, Esther
Bright played on the violin,
and a friend, who is a concert
singer & who knew & loved
Helen, sang exquisitely.

After one pretty service,
Alice & the nurse took Helen
in an open carriage with
the beautiful June sun