polcastrian

Updated: May 9, 2025

And there were other places beside Polchester that could show their typical figures doomed, as it were, to die for their Period no mean nor unworthy death after all. But no Polcastrian in '97 knew that that service in the Cathedral, that scratch on the Archdeacon's cheek, that visit of Mrs. Brandon to London that these things were for them the Writing on the Wall.

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral

During these last days he had had no time to read the paper, and he had fancied, as perhaps every Polcastrian was just then fancying, that the Jubilee was a private affair for Polchester's own private benefit. He felt suddenly that Polchester was a small out-of-the- way place of no account; was there any one in the world who cared whether Polchester celebrated the Jubilee or not? Nobody....

Sir Hugh Walpole - The Cathedral