Quote#Death
In those days, and long after, an English clergyman dressed like a…
Quote byThomas Gordon Hake · 1809–1895
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memories of Eighty Years (1892), p. 31.
English (original)
In those days, and long after, an English clergyman dressed like a gentleman; he now wears a black livery, and he looks like a bishop's footman, in mourning, with his master, for some dead archbishop.
— Thomas Gordon Hake
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