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In their time of trial and sorrow the family received the fullest
sympathy, the kindliest help, from the whole neighborhood. They
had never before so fully appreciated the fraternal character
of the society whereof they were members. The plain, plodding
people living on the adjoining farms became virtually their
relatives and fellow-mourners. All the external offices demanded
by the sad occasion were performed for them, and other eyes than
their own shed tears of honest grief over De Courcy's coffin. All
came to the funeral, and even Simon Pennock, in the plain yet
touching words which he spoke beside the grave, forgot the young
man's wandering from the Light, in the recollection of his frank,
generous, truthful nature.
If the Donnellys had sometimes found the practical equality of life
in Londongrove a little repellent they were now gratefully moved by
the delicate and refined ways in which the sympathy of the people
sought to express itself. The better qualities of human nature
always develop a temporary good-breeding.


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