Then the active and intelligent, who has got into the morning papers as such, comes with his pauper company to Mr. Krookβs and bears off the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed, while our dear brothers and sisters who hang about official back-stairsβwould to heaven they HAD departed!βare very complacent and agreeable.