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...suffered terrible wounds, corresponded devotedly with Mary Shelley. He later wrote Recollections of the Last Days of Byron and Shelley, an invaluable document. He visited the U. S., swimming Niagara between the rapids and the falls. He bought English estates (marrying once more) and turned country gentleman, social lion, patriarch of the Romantic period. With a constitution "stronger than steel," he lived until 1881 (reading Blake, studying Darwin), and finally had his ashes laid by Shelley's. "The man who best loved Shelley," would have been his chosen epitaph...
...years ago, on his 89th birthday, Chauncey Mitchell Depew, Yale '56, received an invitation from fellow Elis of the class of '89 to join their number, be their brother, attend their class reunions as adopted patriarch. Mr. Depew accepted this "beautiful and welcome hospitality...
...Depew is distinguished. Lawyer, politician, public and post- prandial orator, he has seen many years full of service and honor. And the class of '89 is a distinguished class in its own right, patriarch or none. Of its 120 mem bers, there were at one-and-the sametime 17 occupying seats on benches of the judiciary. It has contributed 27 district attorneys and corporation counsels to our legal aristocracy. Lately it has styled itself "famous class"* without fear of contradiction...
...catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...faced by the Sacred College of his scarlet robed Cardinals, sat white-clad Pius XI, once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...