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...ind the passage as Henry James attends the death of his dear friend in London. Once Henry James arrives in London he finds it ‘grotesque’, but remembering he was there to attend the funeral. As he followed the hearse, the sympathetic emotions endured him. The funeral then drifted into ‘Piccadilly’. Then Henry James falls into a cab and overlooks the funeral. The ‘tragedy’ of his beloved friend turned the mood into a ‘serious comedy’. Henry James describes it as a parade. Lines of men, women and children followed the ‘small brass band’ which played behind the hearse. Henry James remained grief-stricken and devastated over the death of Mr. Odger despite the untamed atmosphere. The authors detail illuminates the tranquil and pretentious nature of the funeral of Mr. Odger. Giving Mr. Ogder, an ‘English radical agitator’, a formal funeral is appropriate according to the London s...