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

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.

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.

a confirmed Catholic