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Updated: June 1, 2025
And then Edris drew herself gently from her lover's embrace and raised her head, putting her hand confidingly in his, a lovely smile played on her sweetly parted lips: "Take me, Theos," she said softly, "Lead me, into the World!" Slowly the great side-doors of the Cathedral swung back on their hinges, and out on the steps in a glorious blaze of sunlight came Poet and Angel together.
Having arrived at the west front, we can not avoid pausing to survey the beauty of its workmanship that of the great William of Wykeham; its great central doorway, with its two smaller side-doors; the fretted gallery over it, where the bishop in his pontificals was wont to stand and bless the people, or absolve them from the censures of the church; its noble window, rich with perpendicular tracery; its two slender lantern turrets; its crowning tabernacle, with its statue of the builder; and its pinnacled side aisles.
In summer they cram twelve months' work into six, because between such and such dates certain far rivers will shut, and, later, certain others, till, at last, even the Great Eastern Gate at Quebec locks, and men must go in and out by the side-doors at Halifax and St. John. These are conditions that make for extreme boldness, but not for extravagant boastings.
There is plenty of wealth in Liverpool, and all kinds of private entertainments, but in no other city of its size are there so few public entertainments, and the only interesting occupation that a stranger might find there, would be to watch the strange and curious characters in the lower classes, faces and figures that cannot be caricatured, emerging from cellar-ways or disappearing through side-doors.
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