All Roads Lead to Calvary by Jerome K. Jerome
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Title: All Roads Lead to Calvary
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Release Date: March 24, 2005 [eBook #2231]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1919 Hutchinson & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
ALL ROADS LEAD TO CALVARY
CHAPTER I
She had not meant to stay for the service. The door had stood invitingly open, and a glimpse of the interior had suggested to her the idea that it would make good copy. "Old London Churches: Their Social and Historical Associations." It would be easy to collect anecdotes of the famous people who had attended them. She might fix up a series for one of the religious papers. It promised quite exceptional material, this particular specimen, rich in tombs and monuments. There was character about it, a scent of bygone days. She pictured the vanished congregations in their powdered wigs and stiff brocades. How picturesque must have been the marriages that had taken place there, say in the reign of Queen Anne or of the early Georges. The church would have been ancient even then. With its air of faded grandeur, its sculptured recesses and dark niches, the tattered banners hanging from its r