You must first have a permesso from the Pope, or, at least, from a Cardinal,” said a passing verger to whom we communicated our desire to go in.
To-day we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took us round.
In this note we were assured that the friendly verger of last night’s adventure would be lurking in the neighbourhood of Carmona’s house as early as six o’clock, and should we want him we would know where he was to be found.
I wandered in every direction, while the verger went off to bring Dick and the O’Donnels to meet me in the Orange Court.
The people have given something to a verger not to let others in.
And paying the verger well for his services, we hurried back to the hotel to find Ropes and have the car got ready.
That was to be the rendezvous; and the Cherub would engage the verger we knew to watch the Duke’s house in the morning, bringing news of our fate to the hotel—if we did not bring it ourselves.
That very night, after prayers, East followed the Doctor and the old vergerbearing the candle, up stairs.
Our guide, a rubicund vergerof cheerful demeanor, said that this was true in a few instances.
We now passed under an old stone archway, through a lane that led us from the river-side up past the cathedral, whence a gentleman and lady were just emerging, and the verger was closing the door behind them.
Every Michaelmas Day the Verger appeared before the Dean to give up his wand, and to receive it back if his character was satisfactory.
I was quite chilled through, and the old verger regretted that we had not come during the late hot weather, when the everlasting damp and chill of the spot would have made us entirely comfortable.
At Wolstanton in the Potteries there was a somewhat fussy verger called Oakes.
As he reached the door he heard very lively voices inside, and on opening it the first words he heard were from the old verger himself who was exclaiming, "What's trumps?
An old verger whom I knew lost his wife, and a clergyman went in the evening after the funeral to condole with him.
A verger was showing a lady over a church when she asked him if the vicar was a married man.
A verger showing a large church to a stranger, pointed out another man and said, "That is the other verger.
He asked in the vestry why he had shut the door again while opening it, and the verger said, "We always do that sir, to wake the duke.
Conduct us to the Earl of Rochester, and no harm shall befall you," cried Leonard, seizing the verger by the collar.
The path was uneven, many of the flags having been removed, and the verger often paused to throw a light upon the ground, and warn his companion of a hole.
After pacing the solitary aisles for some time, he made inquiries from the verger concerning Solomon Eagle.
I will keep guard here till you return," said another verger Accompanied by Rochester and Etherege, Bloundel then proceeded to the chief door of the subterranean church.
On reaching it, theverger produced his keys, but they were of no avail, for the door was barred withinside.
By this time they had reached the southern door, and the verger having unlocked it, they issued forth.
The verger offered no objection, and having examined the old building throughout, without discovering any traces of the person he was in quest of, Leonard quitted it.
At length the verger stopped before the entrance of a small chapel, once dedicated to Saint John the Baptist, but now devoted to a less sacred purpose.
They found the verger in the charnel, and before quitting it, the doctor drew a small flask of canary from his pocket, and applied it to his lips.
The verger promised compliance; and, opening a wicket in the great doorway, allowed her to go forth.
Just then, a loud knocking was heard at the northern entrance of the cathedral, and a verger answering the summons, Mr. Bloundel and Blaize were admitted.
But without stopping to investigate the matter, the mason and the younger verger commenced digging.
When all were ready they stepped into a long corridor and formed in line with their faces to the chancel and their backs to a little door, at which a verger in blue stood guard.
Entering by the west door, a verger in a black cloak directed her to a seat in the nave.
The verger lingered on the broad stairway, 'which the pilgrims they mounted it on their knees, as is seen by the two deep grooves in the stone steps.
The shrine which it lies but a few steps further on,' the verger answered; 'and you will come to it in good time.
Even the verger seemed to sympathise with our feelings.
Of this ancient building the crypt still remains, and to see it we followed the verger down a steep, narrow flight of stairs into a series of dungeonlike apartments beneath the forward end of the nave.
The cathedral is extremely interesting and made doubly so by an intelligent verger whom we located with considerable difficulty.
The verger told us of one of the latter that is perhaps founded on more of common sense than many of the old-time practices, and which, with that continuity of custom that confronts one everywhere in England, still prevails.
Mr. Lake, on his part, found the Verger a very cheery companion, and took advantage of any occasion that presented itself for enjoying his conversation when the day's work was over.
Quite plain, as the Verger had said, but for some ordinary stone panelling.
Through this dark avenue I had a distant view of the cloisters, with the figure of an old verger in his black gown moving along their shadowy vaults, and seeming like a spectre from one of the neighboring tombs.
To this the vergerapplied a key; it was double locked, and opened with some difficulty, as if seldom used.
He handed the man a piece of silver and the verger disappeared.
The vergerfollowed Petrarch to the door and watching the tall retreating form muttered to himself, "He does not look like a man who cuts into the grape to excess--and so early in the morning, too!
The duenna doubtless retailed it below-stairs, and the vergerat the church also had his tale to tell.
Again we had a verger all to ourselves, and he proved a fellow with some wit, with all his overwhelming “stock in trade” of cathedral knowledge in architecture.
He asked in the vestry why he had shut the door again while opening it, and the verger said, "We always do that, sir, to wake the duke.
We have a black-gowned verger in our towns; a humble temple-sweeper in our villages.
At Wolstanton, in the Potteries, there was a somewhat fussy verger called Oakes.
The verger had come in as usual that morning by the north door which he had found locked, and it was subsequently ascertained that all the other doors were locked.
A few keen questions did not cause the verger to contradict himself in the slightest particular, and his fifteen years' service seemed to exonerate him.
When theverger arrives on Monday morning and passes through the church towards the vestry, the thief slips out.
Joseph himself, accompanied by a little old man, whom Black recognized as the vergerwho had shown him to his seat, came out together, talking earnestly.
The influence we had just experienced must have given us "pallid sorrowful faces," for the verger almost dropped his torch, and his keys fell to the ground and awoke mysterious echoes in the distant arches.
We sat and gazed upon all, and lost ourselves in the spell of the vision; and presently our old friend the vergerfound us out.
The old verger opened the door, extinguished his torch, and we stood once more in the outside night, under the stars and the sky.
The old verger seemed a little doubtful; the idea had not occurred to him.
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