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CHAPTER III.
WHERE THE PASSER-BY REAPPEARS.
The Green Box, as we have just seen, had arrived in London. It was
established at Southwark. Ursus had been tempted by the bowling-green,
which had one great recommendation, that it was always fair-day there,
even in winter.
The dome of St. Paul's was a delight to Ursus.
London, take it all in all, has some good in it. It was a brave thing to
dedicate a cathedral to St. Paul. The real cathedral saint is St. Peter.
St. Paul is suspected of imagination, and in matters ecclesiastical
imagination means heresy. St. Paul is a saint only with extenuating
circumstances. He entered heaven only by the artists' door.
A cathedral is a sign. St. Peter is the sign of Rome, the city of the
dogma; St. Paul that of London, the city of schism.
Ursus, whose philosophy had arms so long that it embraced everything,
was a man who appreciated these shades of difference, and his attraction
towards London arose, perhaps, from a certain taste of his for St. Paul.
The yard of the Tadcaster Inn had taken the fancy of Ursus. It might
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