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...death bed, last week, the Dowager Empress whispered a wish to say farewell to the chief of her still faithful Cossack Guard. With tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks the giant Cossack came and knelt at her bedside. "God and all his Holy Angels receive you!" he cried, "I shall not survive you long, Matoushka Tsaritsa! I shall come to serve you in Heaven...
Sixteenth Century. Orlando knelt in crimson breeches, offering the Queen a bowl of rose water before she dined. He saw her crabbed sickly hand flash with heavy jewels; she saw his dark curls bent so reverently, and that night deeded him the great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke...
Pleased was France the next day when Mr. Kellogg knelt unostentatiously at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, under the Arc de Triomphe...
...village church of Hautvillers, last week, French peasants knelt devoutly. In their thoughts and prayers was the name of a man dead these 200 years and more. They paid tribute to the Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon...
...handshake between King Alfonso and President Doumergue symbolized the completely altered relations between France and Spain, historic enemies. Connoisseurs of handshaking were not, however, much impressed. They recalled that King Alfonso once shook the hand of a leper, a foul rotting carcass of a man, who had knelt to His Majesty in the street, superstitiously believing that he could be cured by the "Royal Touch...