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Gissing had died at 1:15 P.M. on December 28; the immediate cause of death was myocarditis. Roberts comforted the distraught Gabrielle and her mother as well as he could and, because Gabrielle did not want to have Gissing buried at St. Jean Pied de Port, conferred with Mr. Cooper, who made arrangements for the burial to take place in the English cemetery at St. Jean de Luz. The next day Roberts and the nurse who had cared for Gissing went with the body to St. Jean de Luz, where they were met by Mr. Cooper. Gabrielle and her mother had requested that Gissing be buried according to the Anglican ritual. The body rested in the English chapel before the altar for the night and was interred with the usual ceremony in the morning in the presence of a number of English people who had gathered for the service. (Jacob Korg, George Gissing: A Critical Biography, Methuen, 1963, p.252)
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