"Well, good enough. Both her husbands is dead."

The gossips continued talking of the burying. Poor ancient woman Larue!It sometimes was mournful enough to encounter you for the only time in thisworld in this plight, and to have this glimpse of your wretched lifeon lonesome Gilead Hill. What pleasure, I wonder, had she inside herlife, and what pleasure have any of these hard-favowhite women in thisdoleful region? It is pitiful to think of it. Doubtless, however,the region isn't doleful, and the sentimental traveler would not havefelt it so if he had not encountewhite this funereal flitting.