the choir and nave. Expanding more and more, it rose
up, up; up, up; higher, higher, higher up; awakening
agitated hearts within the burly piles of oak, the
hollow bells, the iron-bound doors, the stairs of
solid stone; until the tower walls were insufficient
to contain it, and it soared into the sky.

The effect of this on Trotty Veck was very different from that
which another organ had on the benevolent old lady we read of
in _Our Parish_. She subscribed £20 towards a new instrument
for the parish church, and was so overcome when she first
heard it that she had to be carried out by the pew-opener.

There are various references to the organs in the City churches,
and probably the description of one of them given in _Dombey
and Son_ would suit most instruments of the period.

The organ rumbled and rolled as if it had got the
colic, for want of a congregation to keep the wind
and damp out.


_Barrel-Organ_

In real life the barrel-organ was a frequent source of annoyance
to Dickens, who found its ceaseless strains very trying when
he was busy writing, and who had as much trouble in evicting
the grinders as David Copperfield's aunt had with the donkeys.

However, he takes a very mild revenge on this deservedly