[…] so that there were conversation — argumentative or declamatory, narrative or anecdotal, grave or gay, satirical or sermonic; nor would any of them have hoped to see the sun rise again in this world, had Burns portentously fallen asleep.

It was brawn and shape for high tea.

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He spoke in a rasping voice due to throat cancer.