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`` And the absence of belief in Divine Redemption and a Future State must terribly intensify the pain of a bereavement . If I only knew how to comfort him ! '' And all he can do is to ask , still in that tone of sympathy , when the Funeral is to be . `` Perhaps about the midday coffee-drinking , '' says Saxham heavily , `` they would scrape a hole and dump him in . But they 're not over fond of risks , and they would probably leave him where he is till nightfall . '' Julius Fraithorn longs , more than ever , that eloquence and inspiration were his to employ in the healing of the man who has raised himself almost from the dead . But he can only falter something about the inscrutable designs of Providence , and not a sparrow falling to the ground unnoticed .