Provost scoffing

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  • prophet’s coffin → Mohammed’s coffin is said to be eversuspended → it sways back and forth, eastwards and westwards → Otherways and wesways
  • provost: a religious leader; chief dignitary of a cathedral or a collegiate church
  • Abbé Prévost: 18th Century author of Manon Lescaut, which was made into an opera by Puccini in 1893, and Le doyen de Killérine
  • scoffing: mockery; jeering, deriding
  • coughing