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Shelley’s Attachment to Jane Williams--Her Womanly Goodness-- Her Devotion to her Husband--_The Serpent is shut out from Paradise_--_Essay on the Devil_--Shelley’s Happiness and Discord with Mary--Her Remorseful Verses--Trials of her Married Life--_Essay on Christianity_--San Terenzo and Lerici--The Casa Magni--Mary’s Illness and Melancholy at San Terenzo--Arrival of the ‘Don Juan’--Mutual Affection of Mrs. Shelley and Mrs. Williams--Shelley’s latest Visions and Hallucinations--Leigh Hunt’s Arrival in Italy--Shelley sails for Leghorn--Meeting of Shelley and Hunt--Improvement in Shelley’s Health--His Mediation between Hunt and Byron--The Hunts in the Palazzo Lanfranchi--Lady Shelley’s Account of the Difficulties between Byron and Shelley--Shelley’s Contentment with his Arrangements for the Hunts--He sets Sail for Lerici--The Fatal Storm--Cremation on the Sea-shore--Grave at Rome.