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"O eloquent, just and mightie death! whom none could advise, / thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and / whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of / the world and despised: thou hast drawn together all the farre / stretched greatnesses; all the pride, crueltie and ambition of / man and covered it all over with these two narrow words, _Hic / jacet_." / SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
Bertram's hurried ring at his uncle's door was answered by Samuel the butler.