The wooden frame represents the cross of Christ, and the cord, which formerly served to set the bell swinging, allegorizes the science of the Scriptures which flows from the mystery of the Cross itself.
"Là-bas"
J. K. Huysmans
"The Ambitious Guest" allegorizes a vain imagination, and is the most important of these three.
"The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne"
Frank Preston Stearns