“He took another cup.”~~Hadrian the Seventh by Fr. Rolfe a.k.a. Baron Corvo
A failed prist and hack writer, George Rose, becomes pope and tries to reform the church. Entertaining!
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Page 56, Line 5 
Failed ‘priest’ I think! Entertaining reading, Rolfe is being autobiographical I think.
I recently saw some of the banners this curious man (aka Baron Corvo) did at Holywell – well worth seeing if you are that way, soo our blog: http://sthcrysostoms.wordpress.com