[Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett]@TWC D-Link bookBuried Alive: A Tale of These Days CHAPTER IV 2/32
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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