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She said , hesitatingly : `` But I thought such an honour as that was n't allowed to any but very very near relations , who -- '' `` Right , you are quite right , my lady , perfectly right ; but there are n't any nearer relatives than relatives by usurpation . We can not avoid it ; we are slaves of aristocratic custom and must submit . '' The hatchments were unnecessarily generous , each being as large as a blanket , and they were unnecessarily volcanic , too , as to variety and violence of color , but they pleased the earl 's barbaric eye , and they satisfied his taste for symmetry and completeness , too , for they left no waste room to speak of on the house-front . Lady Rossmore and her daughter assisted at the sitting-up till near midnight , and helped the gentlemen to consider what ought to be done next with the remains . Rossmore thought they ought to be sent home with a committee and resolutions , -- at once . But the wife was doubtful . She said : `` Would you send all of the baskets ? ''