The heavy hearse brought the body from the city to the country church, where it was to be laid in the family vault.
She went with her maid to the old castle where she had been born, and near which the gentle, pious lady, her mother, was lying in the church vault.
"Now King Christian lies in the vault in Roskilde Cathedral, and Eleonore's brother is King.
Over everything reigned a stillness, not of sleep or of death, but as if Nature were holding her breath, that her image might be photographed on the blue vault of heaven.
It rings it out in the vault of heaven, far, far out, forever and ever, till the heaven bells sound "Ding-dong!
"The vault of heaven is above me everywhere," he says, "and what do I want more?
So he made up his mind to remember one of them in his will, as the one to be buried with him in the family vault, whenever that event should happen.
When the steamboat winds along like a magic snail over the lakes, a stranger often comes to the church, and visits the burial vault; he asks the names of the kings, and they have a dead and forgotten sound.
Our family vault is six miles from here.
It produced the feeling which we experience when we enter a vault at a funeral, on a summer's day; while the hills and the clouds put on that singular green hue which we often notice in old paintings, and look upon as unnatural until we have ourselves seen nature's coloring in the south.
