“‘I think,’ said Dame Maura, lifting her hands, ‘that Thomas Aquinas and Johann Sebastian Bach must occupy thrones side by side in heaven.’
“‘Handel?’ Cecily advanced timidly.
“‘Much lower down, with St. Bernard perhaps,’ said Dame Maura decidedly.”
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