There was something funereal in the whole affair, and Mr. Casaubon seemed to be the officiating clergyman, about whom it would be indecent to make remarks.
They spoke in whispers, ate in silence, recited the rosary three times a day, and even clavichord practice during the heat of siesta time had a funereal echo.
" I am not here for Cersei" . A drum began to beat behind them, slow, measured, funereal. Dead, it seemed to say, dead, dead. " I came to make my farewells. He was my father" .
She was the best-looking woman in the room; she made the dinner a little less funereal than the usual van der Luyden banquet." " You know cousin Henry asked her to please you: he persuaded cousin Louisa.