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...appears to be rather popular. The Virginia University Magazine and the Hamilton Lit. both contain exceedingly sentimental articles upon this exceedingly sentimental person. The Virginia writer gives full play to his imagination, and describes with the vivid exactness of a Herald reporter the last dreadful scene in the sinking yacht off the Italian coast. It may gratify some moralists to learn that the "atheist" Shelley met his death in the midst of a prayer, with which was "coupled" the name of the "poor, dead Harriet," to whom he had proved so exemplary a spouse...
...course of an hour or so we come to Staten Hook or Sandy Island, I forget which. A very pretty yacht comes alongside, and a man from our steamer (whom I have noticed talking with the captain on the bridge several times) gets on board of her. Probably one of the Cunard Company who amuses himself by taking short trips on the different boats. I ask an elderly gentleman if this is so. He looks fixedly at me and replies, "Do you mean the pilot?" I do not understand what he is talking about, and walk away. He is probably...