Gogin lives at 164 Euston Road, just opposite St. Pancras Church, and the
bells play doleful hymn tunes opposite his window which worries him. My
St. Dunstan’s bells near Clifford’s Inn play doleful hymn tunes which
enter in at my window; I not only do not dislike them, but rather like
them; they are so silly and the bells are out of tune. I never yet was
annoyed by either bells or street music except when a loud piano organ
strikes up outside the public-house opposite my bedroom window after I am
in bed and when I am just going to sleep. However, Jones was at Gogin’s
one summer evening and the bells struck up their dingy old burden as
usual. The tonic bell on which the tune concluded was the most stuffy
and out of tune. Gogin said it was like the smell of a bug.