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I wish I could share with him, as easily as this assurance, the sentiment of the quaint place, with its traces of Early English architecture, and its look of being chopped in two; its intense quiet and remoteness in the heart of the city, with the slop-pail of its pew-opener mingling a cleansing odor with the ancient smells which pervade all old churches.
Joan waited till the last of the congregation had disappeared, and then joined the little pew-opener who was waiting to close the doors. Joan asked her what she had thought of the sermon, but Mary Stopperton, being a little deaf, had not heard it. "It was quite good the matter of it," Joan told her. "All Roads lead to Calvary.
He approached them, with a hope that Adela had not been obliged to leave through indisposition. 'A little faintness, Mutimer was quick to reply. 'We are going to look for something she dropped in the pew. Mr. Wyvern passed on. Only the pew-opener was moving about the aisles. She looked with surprise at the pair as they entered. 'Tell her the same, Mutimer commanded, under his breath.
Few persons visit them, and you are likely to find yourself comparatively alone, in rambles of this kind. I went one morning into St. Martin's, once "in-the-fields," now at the busy center of the city, and found there only a pew-opener, preparing for the service, and an organist, practising music.
No need to get the 'consent of the parents, or make a 'settlement, or give out the banns, or buy a government license as though a wife were contraband goods, or hire a string of four-wheelers, or tip the pew-opener. What has love to do with pew-openers? Why should the finest thing in life become the prey of such vulgar parasites?
If you show a real interest in the church, you will find the pew-opener or verger pleased to let you see everything, not only the monuments and the carvings in the church, but also the treasures of the vestry, in which are preserved many interesting things old maps, portraits, old deeds and gifts, old charities now all clean swept away by the Charity Commission ancient Bibles and Prayer-books, muniment chests, embroidered palls, old registers with signatures historical all these things are found in the vestry of the City church.
This message, she was aware, might create some suspicion, and put her upon her guard; but she thought, nevertheless, a sudden meeting with the Pew-opener, whom she meant abruptly to confront with her, would baffle the security of any previously settled scheme.
Not a word was said to Gibbie concerning the liberty he had taken: the minister and his wife were in too much dread not of St. James and the "poor man in vile raiment," for they were harmless enough in themselves, but of Gibbie's pointing finger to back them. Three distinct precautions, however, they took; the pew-opener on that side was spoken to; Mrs.
The ceremony over, the books signed in the vestry, and the clergyman, clerk, and pew-opener duly remunerated for their services, we prepared to be gone. For a couple of moments, Dalrymple and his bride stood apart in the shadow of the porch.
She subscribed twenty pounds towards the erection of an organ in our parish church, and was so overcome the first Sunday the children sang to it, that she was obliged to be carried out by the pew-opener.
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