They are like some wise men, who, learning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity, Forbearance, Universal Love, and Mercy, […] and who, looking upward at the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book-learning.

The dress code for the funeral said dark - meaning white shirt, black suit, with a black necktie (no bowties permitted.)

a confirmed Catholic

In the day-time, likewise, they must have remarked the in-rush from all country roads, of top-boot farmers, leggined horse-dealers, fresh and sweet country damsels, with their awkward smockfrock sweethearts, cheek by jowl, who now and then, perhaps, emboldened by a cup of ale, will seize their fair ones even in the street, and perforce implant a smacking kiss upon their turned-away and glowing cheeks.