Status Updates From Death Comes for the Archbishop

"He had a pleasant awakening from sleep..He recovered consciousness slowly, unwilling to let go of a pleasing delusion that he was in Rome.

"They lingered over these memories - an indulgence they seldom permitted themselves."

"The Lord had made few uglier men...his countenance had little to recommend it but kindliness and vivacity...there was certainly nothing in his outer case to suggest the fierceness and fortitude and fire of the man...everybody believed in Father Vaillant - homely, real , persistent, with the driving power of a dozen men in his poorly built body."

"I supposed he would be willing to rest to-day; but not a bit of it. You know his motto, 'Rest in action.'"

"The young Bishop's pen flew over the paper, leaving a trail of fine, finished French script behind, in violet ink.
...'I wish that you, and my dear sister, could look in upon this scene of comfort and peace.'"