The Seven Sons of Mammon A Story - 1 Author:George Augustus Sala Volume: 1 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1862 Original Publisher: Tinsley brothers Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos... more » or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER VI. " RESURGAM." In the early days of January 1850, the solemn funeral of Hugh Jasper Goldthorpe took place. The locality chosen was the cemetery at Kensal Green. The Goldthorpe family had been too recently inscribed in the Libra d' Oro of provincial aristocracy (Burke's Landed Gentry) to claim sepulture in some ivy-grown country church, the pavement of whose chancel was sown thick with monumental brasses and cross- legged figures, couchant, of mediaeval Gold- thorpes, dead and gone. Hugh could not be laid with his ancestors; and Sir Jasper had ever calmly repudiated the convenient insinuation of heraldic parasites, that it might be possible to find a Goldthorpe well known as a Saxon franklin whose fathers had been here long before the Conqueror's coming, and the registration of whose land and swine had been unaccountably omitted from Domesday-book. The potentateof Beryl Court prided himself oa being the Rodolph of Hapsburg -- read "Lucksburg" -- of his race. There had been some talk of a mausoleum in the park at Goldthorpe; but this idea was . abandoned at the earnest instance of the mother of the deceased. Where her son's ashes were laid, she was determined, she said, to lie some day; and it should be, she insisted, in a Christian graveyard, not among the deer in a park. There were those among the Goldthorpe following who expressed themselves of opinion that Westminster Abbey was the most appropriate place for interment. Why had not...« less