Melmoth The Wanderer, Volume 4 by Charles Maturin

She sat, and thought Of what a sailor suffers. COWPER.

"The intelligence that was the cause of old Sir Roger's death, who might be said to be conducted from this world to the next by a blessed _euthanasia_, (a kind of passing with a light and lofty step from a narrow entry to a spacious and glorious apartment, without ever feeling he trod the dark and rugged threshold that lies between), was the signal and pledge to this ancient family of the restitution of their faded honours, and fast-declining possessions. Grants, reversals of fines, restoration of land and chattels, and offers of pensions, and provisions, and remunerations, and all that royal gratitude, in the effervescence of its enthusiasm, could bestow, came showering on the Mortimer family, as fast and faster than fines, confiscations, and sequestrations, had poured on them in the reign of the usurper.