It wasn't the Dean's fault, that much was certain. A tourist told the sexton and the sexton told the Dean and the Dean told the Chapter; somebody even told the King. Everybody shook their heads and said it could not be so, but when they went to look, there was the fact staring them in the face. The London Times got hold of the story, started a restoration fund that netted £33,000 in three days. In Park Lane, in Mile End Road, in Billingsgate, in the counties, what a buzz. "Falling down . ....
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