Excerpt from Hopes and Fears, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Scenes From the Life of a Spinster
Who ought to go then and who ought to stay?
Where do you draw an obvious border line? -
Cecil and Mary.
Among the numerous steeples counted from the waters of the Thames, in the heart of the City, and grudged by modem economy as cumberers of the soil of Mammon, may be remarked an abortive little dingy cupola, surmounting two large round eyes which have evidently stared over the adjacent roofs ever since the Fire that began at Pie Corner and ended in Pudding Lane.
Strange that the like should have been esteemed the highest walk of architecture, and yet Honora Charlecote well remembered the days when St. Wulstan"s was her boast, so large, so clean, so light, so Grecian, so far surpassing damp old Hiltonbury Church.
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