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210 THE WIFE OF BENEDICT ARNOLD. exceedingly massive and richly decorated with gold, and covered with velvet black and crimson, was conveyed to London in a British man-of-war, and interred in the abbey with religious ceremonies, near the monument erected to his honor by George the Third. For forty-one years the body had remained in a cheap pine coffin, painted black, and in the unhonored grave of a spy, to be buried at last in the mausoleum of heroes, orators, poets, and statesmen.
