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 lodges, guilds and societies marched with their badges, flags and banners, and even the convents and monasteries were represented.

The steward, as a delegate from Hlohov, marched in a crowd of several hundred servants in front of the coffin. They all carried wax candles, to which was fastened the escutcheon of the Felsenburks. Following them were the Count’s officials, bearing torches. The foremost land-owners held the tassels of the pall, which was sprinkled with tears of pearl, and in its center glittered a costly silver-embroidered cross, the mourning gift of his wife, whom death had reconciled to her husband and moved to present him with a cross—her first gift. Six pages, arrayed in ancient costumes, carried, on black velvet cushions trimmed with silver fringe, laurel wreaths, in the centers of which were numerous ensigns of the official dignities of the deceased. Behind them the equerries led the Count’s riding horses, covered with mourning; and according to the ancient custom, veins in their legs were opened, that streams