Vans for sale Falling into a troubled reverie, he beheld the well-known houses, and the great trees under whose shadow he had grown from youth to manhood, flit by him like
phantoms in a dream. But suddenly one house and one place drew his attention with a force that startled him again into an erect attitude, and seizing with
one hand the arm of the driver, he pointed with the other at the door of the cottage they were passing, saying in choked tones:
“See! see! Something dreadful has happened since we passed by here this morning. That is crape, Samuel, crape, hanging from the doorpost yonder!”
“Yes, it is crape,” answered the driver, jumping out and running up the path to look.