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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER IV
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It seemed to make a point of not mentioning Westminster Abbey by name, as though Westminster Abbey had been something not quite mentionable, such as a pair of trousers.

The article ended with the word 'basilica,' and by the time you had reached this majestic substantive, you felt indeed, with the _Sunday News_, that a National Valhalla without the remains of a Priam Farll inside it, would be shocking, if not inconceivable.
Priam Farll was extremely disturbed.
On Monday morning the _Daily Record_ came nobly to the support of the _Sunday News_.

It had evidently spent its Sunday in collecting the opinions of a number of famous men--including three M.P.'s, a banker, a Colonial premier, a K.C., a cricketer, and the President of the Royal Academy--as to whether the National Valhalla was or was not a suitable place for the repose of the remains of Priam Farll; and the unanimous reply was in the affirmative.

Other newspapers expressed the same view.
But there were opponents of the scheme.

Some organs coldly inquired what Priam Farll had _done_ for England, and particularly for the higher life of England.


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