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Ashes to Ashes: A Cremation Prelude
Excerpt from Ashes to Ashes: A Cremation Prelude
T was a melancholy autumn night. I had strayed on to the beach, and stood watching the foamless but still heaving waters as they lifted up great masses of tangled sea-weed and shells, torn from the rocks during the late storm. The last glimmer of lilac from the sunset had faded out upon the sea.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
T was a melancholy autumn night. I had strayed on to the beach, and stood watching the foamless but still heaving waters as they lifted up great masses of tangled sea-weed and shells, torn from the rocks during the late storm. The last glimmer of lilac from the sunset had faded out upon the sea.
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
275 pages, Paperback
First published November 2, 2013
About the author
Hugh Reginald Haweis
90 books2 followersReverend H.R. Haweis was born in 1838. He was educated privately in Sussex and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1860. He travelled in Italy and served under Garibaldi in 1860. On his return to England he was ordained and held various curacies in London, becoming in 1866 incumbent of St James's, Marylebone.
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